Date: 1762

"To mine the king of Iniscon,' said Connal, 'heart of steel'"

— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)

Date: 1762

"But when the king came, in the sound of his course, what heart of steel could stand!"

— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)

Date: 1762

"My soul, that never melted before; it was like the steel of my sword"

— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)

Date: 1762-3

"Vainly thy precepts are address'd / Where Virtue steels the steady breast."

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1762

"Yet with the mind of Jesus steel'd / He cannot to entreaties yield"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1762

"Try me then, and try me still / In the furnace of distress, / … I shall at last come forth as gold."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1762

"Your wood I will convert to brass; / Your souls shall take a finer mould, / The Jewish into Christian pass, / The iron age be turn'd to gold."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1762

"What but the casting in of grace / This stony, iron heart, can raise, / To heavenly turn my earthly love, / And lift my soul to things above"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1762

"Out of their hearts the dross remove, / Their worldly care, and worldly love; / As silver and as gold refine"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1763

Dryden "Gave [Sigismunda] those griefs, which made the Stoic feel, / And call'd compassion forth from hearts of steel"

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)