Date: 1765, 1770
"Wonder they cannot blush, they do not feel, / They must be harden'd like an heart of steel."
preview | full record— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)
Date: 1799
"Ignorance has set her stamp upon him--his mind seared to every virtuous impression--his heart flint, and his temper moved by the slightest breath"
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"No Soul should mix among the courtly Train, ... Among the higher, or the lower, Class, / Whose breast's not form'd of steel, and front of brass!"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)