Date: 1725

"I will give you the saddest Account you have ever yet been entertain'd with; but you must wrap your Heart in a Case of Adamant, or it will melt away in the hearing of it."

— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)

Date: 1725-6

"Each gentle mind the soft infection felt, for richest metals are most apt to melt"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725-6

"Each warlike Greek the moving music hears, / And iron-hearted Heroes melt in tears"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725-6

"Heav'n has not curst me with a heart of steel, / But giv'n the sense, to pity, and to feel."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725-6

"Deep in my soul the trust shall lodge secur'd, / With ribs of steel, and marble heart immur'd"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725-6

"And oh my Queen! he cries; what pow'r above / Has steel'd that heart, averse to spousal love!"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725-6

"O cruel thou! some fury sure has steel'd / That stubborn soul, by toil untaught to yield!"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725-6

"But sure relentless folly steels thy breast, / Obdurate to reject the stranger-guest"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725

"If Artander's Heart were not as hard as the Rock he has been scrutinizing into, he wou'd never have laid such strict Injunctions on my Pen, and robb'd me of my darling Pleasure; but to let you see how ready I am to relinquish every thing that gives you uneasiness, I have, in compliance with my F...

— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)

Date: 1726

One may be galled "with Reproaches and Contempt, more heavy, and corroding into my Soul, than the Load and Rust of my Irons eating into my Flesh? "

— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)