Date: 1748
"the Persian Bands / In fearful Wonder ask; What God unseen / Such Pow'r bestow'd, and steel'd a Woman's Heart"
preview | full record— Warton, Thomas, the elder (1688-1745)
Date: 1748
"These be now my Cares, / To leave the Muse for Virtue [...] but chief my Soul to steel / With adamantine Honour"
preview | full record— Warton, Thomas, the elder (1688-1745)
Date: 1751
Religion shall "Shall purge their Minds from all impure Allays / Of sordid Selfishness and brutal Sense,"
preview | full record— West, Gilbert (1703-1756)
Date: 1760
"Whene'er he visits us with Racks of Pain, / And speeds the rapid Fever in each Vein, / Our drossy Souls the potent Fire refines,/ Till the bright Ore in polish'd Beauty shines"
preview | full record— Langhorne,William (1721-1772)
Date: 1763
"With firm resolves my steady bosom steel, / Bravely to suffer, tho' I deeply feel."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1764
'In spring eternal, lay a plain / Where our brave fathers used to train / Their sons to arms, to teach the art / Of war, and steel the infant heart."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1764
"Beyond this to awake our zeal, / To quicken our resolves, and steel / Our steady souls to bloody bent,"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1764
"When she with apathy the breast would steel, / And teach us, deeply feeling, not to feel"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1767
"For oh the time will come, when you shall feel / Stabs in your heart more sharp than stabs of steel"
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1767, 1784
"Think not my breast is steel'd against the claims / Of sweet humanity."
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)