Date: 1777
"Pale-eyed Affright, his heart of silver hue, / In vain essayed her bosom to acale."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1779
"Then steel your mind, to bear the story's horror."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1784
"No, Edwitha--you have a native dignity of mind incapable of degradation or alloy."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Date: 1784
" I am form'd horribly robust, as thou art, without a grain of sensibility--a heart of stone, and nerves of cast iron"
preview | full record— Andrews, Miles Peter (1742-1814)
Date: 1785
"While in high life our hearts the fashions steel, / Too gay to listen, and too fine to feel--"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1793
"Tears from our sex are not always the result of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we pay to our fellow-beings, while the mind and the heart are steeled against the weakness which our eyes indicate"
preview | full record— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)
Date: 1793
"Can you say, your mind and heart are so steeled?"
preview | full record— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)
Date: 1795
"Lady Ruby is the loadstone that draws away every particle of steel that shou'd fortify my heart, and leaves it weaker than a woman's tear."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1795
"You should not soften, but steel my heart!"
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)