Date: 1776
"One breast alone against his rage was steel'd, / Secure in spotless Truth's celestial shield"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1776
"Forgive, O king, if as a man I feel, / I bear no bosom of obdurate steel"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1777
"Pale-eyed Affright, his heart of silver hue, / In vain essayed her bosom to acale."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1777
"Courage, the warrior's bosom steel'd."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: w. 1755, 1777
"She [Nature] employs it [spiritual substance] as a kind of paste or clay; modifies it into a variety of forms and existences; dissolves after a time each modification, and from its substance erects a new form."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: w. 1755, 1777
"And does any thing steel the breast of judges and juries against the sentiments of humanity but reflections on necessity and public interest?"
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1778
"I must first see what state my troops are in.--Go you, Drill, and bring 'em before us--here they come! here they come--come on my hearts of gold"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1778
"Education, and good company are necesary to polish the mind----but can any education, or any company, convey a fine understanding, where it has not been given by nature?"
preview | full record— Caulfield (fl. 1778)
Date: August 4, 1778
"Behold! the soul shall waft away, / Whene'er we come to die, / And leave its cottage made of clay, / In twinkling of an eye."
preview | full record— Hammon, Jupiter (1711-c.1800)
Date: 1778
"As to my Fanny and myself, our souls had been created, like sympathetic steel and magnet, to leap together at first sight!"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)