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)
Date: 1798
"But I'm a Bust with Heart of Steel, / That can nor Pain nor Pleasure feel."
preview | full record— Elizabeth [née Lady Elizabeth Berkeley], margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth [other married name Elizabeth Craven, Lady Craven] (1750-1828)
Date: 1799
"Mock as you will, I cannot, like you, steel my heart against the common feelings of humanity"
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1800
"I'm dead to pity as to fear, / My heart is cas'd with steel"
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1800
"We're dead to pity as to fear, / Our hearts are cas'd with steel"
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1800
"To pity wake, though dead to fear, / Nor case your hearts with steel."
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)