Date: 1745
"Thou'lt weep, I know thy gentle Soul, my Fair, / No senseless Steel, no rugged Flint dwells there."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1746
"And with him took none but O'Neil, / Whose heart he found as true as steel"
preview | full record— Graham, Dougal (bap. 1721, d. 1779)
Date: 1775
"Need we the influence of the northern star / To string our nerves and steel our hearts to war? "
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1789
"There northern Kametzchatka's dreary strand, / And frozen Isles, your daring toils demand: / Again your British hearts of steel"
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)