Date: 1791
"My son! oh how could so severe a word / Escape thy lips? my fortitude of mind / Thou know'st, and even now shalt prove me firm / As iron, secret as the stubborn rock."
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Date: 1791
"Thou hast an iron heart! / For should that savage man and faithless once / Seize and discover thee, no pity expect / Or reverence at his hands"
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Date: 1791
"Thou hast an heart of iron, terrour-proof."
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Date: 1791
"Hard was his lot, whom these rare qualities / Preserved not, neither had his dauntless heart / Been iron, had he 'scaped his cruel doom."
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Date: 1791
"I will encounter him, though his hands be fire, / Though fire his hands, and his heart hammer'd steel."
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Date: 1791, 1800
"Then from the iron tablet of my mind, / Will I efface my catalogue of wrongs."
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Date: 1794, 1800
"Be hot with wrath, great iron-hearted Mack"
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Date: w. 1787, 1797
"They only who are curst with breasts of steel / Can mock the foibles of surviving love"
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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."
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