Date: 1815
"I know full well you cannot steel / Your breast, against the pains I feel"
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Date: 1817
"The friends thou hast, and their adoption try'd, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;"
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Date: 1820
Yet he ne'er vainly strove to steel [...] His heart, and bid him not to feel, / But yielded to what Heav'n thought fit"
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Date: 1821
"'Ah, move,' he said, 'and you shall feel / That Paddy has a heart of steel"
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Date: 1823
The "venom'd shafts" of Cupid "empoison mortal joy," "Drawing from heav'n the soul of man to earth, / With foul alloy debasing purest treasure."
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