Date: 1799

"Mock as you will, I cannot, like you, steel my heart against the common feelings of humanity"

— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)

Date: 1799

"Ah, you lucky dog! you have an estate in every corner of your brain, and a pretty income at the end of every finger."

— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)

Date: 1800

"I'm dead to pity as to fear, / My heart is cas'd with steel"

— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)

Date: 1800

"We're dead to pity as to fear, / Our hearts are cas'd with steel"

— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)

Date: 1800

"To pity wake, though dead to fear, / Nor case your hearts with steel."

— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)

Date: 1800

"[I]f miseries pressed on thy brain too great for reason to support, would tend thee in the cell of madness, and even there derive more ecstasy from one kind look given in the transient intervals of sense, than all the unruffled pleasures that the world without thee can afford"

— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)