Date: 1749
"When she, with all the Magnet's Pow'r, / Draws to her sweet enchanting Bow'r / Heroic Souls, and Hearts of Steel."
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1752
"His Hope revives, fresh Courage steels his Heart."
preview | full record— Browne, Moses (1706-1787)
Date: 1752, 1790
The gentleman "To Figg and Broughton ... commits his breast, / To steel it to the fashionable test
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)
Date: 1753
"When Flora sweeps the Table with a Vole, / What Breast so steel'd as Grief can not invade, / To see the Havock on her Beautys made!"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: January 28, 1753
"I have heard that his understanding was rather hurt by the absolute retirement in which he lived, and indeed he had an imagination too lively to be trusted to itself; the treasures of it were inexhaustible, but for want of commerce with mankind he made that rich oar into bright but useless medal...
preview | full record— Montagu [née Robinson], Elizabeth (1718-1800)
Date: 1755
"Malice away, with all her Scorpions, creeps, / And Marius, iron-hearted Marius, weeps."
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1756
"A war of passions in their breasts they feel / As the muse fires, who have not hearts of Steel."
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1759, performed 1776
"Steel then, ye Powers of heav'n, / Steel my firm soul with your own fortitude, / Free from alloy of passion."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1761
"Ye Pow'rs above my Breast with courage steel, / That when the Hour arrives, I may not feel / A Mother's weakness melting this sad Heart"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1766, 1806
"Let this pervade at length thy heart of steel; / Yet, yet return, nor blush, Oh man! to feel."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)