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: 1757
"For, as an alloy to its very great advantages, there is something selfish, ungenerous and illiberal in the nature and views of trade, that tends to debase and sink the mind below its natural state."
preview | full record— Harris, Joseph (bap. 1704, d. 1764)
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)