Date: July 1797, 1810

"See, while his thunders iron hearts assail, / The tyrants of each hemisphere turn pale!"

— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)

Date: w. 1766, 1797

" His youth, his comeliness, his country too, / Will stamp him very Curan in her heart"

— Mason, William (1725-1797)

Date: w. 1766, 1797

"Has my moral pencil / So oft portray'd the forms of truth and falshood, / In their just lineaments, to thy mind's eye"

— Mason, William (1725-1797)

Date: w. 1766, 1797

"The future whole infix upon thy mind; / Be there each line in truth ideal drawn"

— Mason, William (1725-1797)

Date: w. 1746, 1797

"His youthful breast, by years mature refin'd, / May shine the mirror of thy blameless mind."

— Mason, William (1725-1797)

Date: w. 1794, 1797

"'Tis only those of purer clay / 'From sensual dross refined, / 'In whom the passions pleas'd obey / 'The God within the mind, / 'Who share my delegated aid, / 'Through Wisdom's golden mean convey'd / 'From the first source of sov'reign good."

— Mason, William (1725-1797)

Date: 1797

"here's Redmond O'Hanlon, though now the constable and the county keeper, yet he was a heart of steel, that I'm sure of."

— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)

Date: 1797

"For then first throbb'd an heart of steel."

— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)

Date: 1797

"I would neither corrupt my imagination with impurity, nor steel my heart by barbarous narratives and sanguinary persecutions."

— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)

Date: 1797

"Vice with them is rather an accidental and temporary, than a constitutional and habitual distemper; a noxious plant, which, though found to live and even to thrive in the human mind, is not the natural growth and production of the soil."

— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)