Date: 1790
"'The hero's heart is neither steel nor flint"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
"For what heart, / Not made of steel, could look on such a scene, / Three armies deep and strong, with countless horse, / Chariots untold, innumerable foot"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1791
"The generous Mind expanding into Joy, / While no mean Passion mixt its base Alloy;"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1791
"Hail to each ancient sacred shade / Of those, who gave the Muses aid, / Skill'd verse mysterious to unfold, / And set each brilliant thought in gold."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1792
"Had not a persecuting spirit steel'd / Their breasts to momentary pardon prone."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1804
"'Then first with the seducing Cup / 'I tried to steel my Breast, / 'To keep expiring Courage up"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1826
"Then with a Warmth of Language, which He thought / Must on a Heart of Steel or Stone have wrought, / He prest his Suit"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1826
"Seen many a Comrade droop, & strove to steel / His heart, but still the Woes of War could fee / With Other Woes."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1838
" But hope rose gently in the mother's breast; / For well she knew that neither grief nor joy / Pain'd without hope, or pleased without alloy"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)