Date: 1790

"The hour approaches when we must for ever separate! Steel your bosom and weep not."

— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809); Johann Christian Brandes (1735-1799)

Date: 1792

"Men!--Men! false! treacherous crocodiles! Your eyes are water! your hearts are iron!"

— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)

Date: 1792

"The tears, the supplications of his father, never reach'd his iron heart.-- "

— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)

Date: 1792

"The King of England steels his heart against us"

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)

Date: 1792

"We from your judgment to your hearts appeal, / Generous as brave, you are not hearts of steel"

— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)

Date: 1795, 1796

The "anvil of gnawing conscience is never cool"

— Timaeus, J. J. (1763-1809); Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

Date: 1795

"Lady Ruby is the loadstone that draws away every particle of steel that shou'd fortify my heart, and leaves it weaker than a woman's tear."

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

Date: 1795

"You should not soften, but steel my heart!"

— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)

Date: 1795

"--a band, whose steely hearts are rivetted with oaths, will aid thee."

— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)

Date: 1796

"A plague on stoicks! / I cannot hoop my heart about with iron, / Like an old beer-butt"

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)