Date: 1715-1720
"Is then the dire Achilles all your Care? / That Iron Heart, inflexibly severe."
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Date: 1715-1720
"The Gods that unrelenting Breast have steel'd, / And curs'd thee with a Mind that cannot yield."
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Date: 1715-1720
"Nor from yon' Boaster shall your Chief retire, / Not tho' his Heart were Steel, his Hands were Fire; / That Fire, that Steel, your Hector shou'd withstand, / And brave that vengeful Heart, that dreadful Hand."
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Date: 1715-1720
"The Furies that relentless Breast have steel'd, / And curs'd thee with a Heart that cannot yield."
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Date: 1715-1720
"Singly to pass thro' Hosts of Foes! to face / (Oh Heart of Steel!) the Murd'rer of thy Race!"
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Date: 1715-1720
"Heav'n sure has arm'd thee with a Heart of Steel, / A Strength proportion'd to the Woes you feel."
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Date: 1715-1720
"Then with his Sceptre that the Deep controuls, / He touch'd the Chiefs, and steel'd their manly Souls"
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Date: 1715-1720
"The Monarch spoke: the Words with Warmth addrest / To rigid Justice steel'd his Brother's Breast."
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Date: 1715-1720
"[W]hat a Crowd of terrible Ideas in this one Simile!"
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Date: 1715-1720
"Tis the natural Discharge of a vast Imagination, heated in its Progress, and giving itself vent in this Crowd of Images"
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