Date: 1713
"The Rafters sink, and bury'd with his Coin / That Fate does with his living Thoughts combine; / For still his Heart's inclos'd within a Golden Mine."
preview | full record— Finch [née], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)
Date: 1714, 1723
"Tormenting Doubts my troubled Soul perplex, / But my steel'd Breast no certain Fears can vex."
preview | full record— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)
Date: 1715-1720
"Proud as he is, that Iron-heart retains / Its stubborn Purpose, and his Friends disdains"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"Is then the dire Achilles all your Care? / That Iron Heart, inflexibly severe."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"The Gods that unrelenting Breast have steel'd, / And curs'd thee with a Mind that cannot yield."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715
"He Steels his Heart, unknowing to repent"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1715
"What steely Heart can bear, what Tongue recite / The mortal Terrors of that dreadful Night?"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
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."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"The Furies that relentless Breast have steel'd, / And curs'd thee with a Heart that cannot yield."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"Singly to pass thro' Hosts of Foes! to face / (Oh Heart of Steel!) the Murd'rer of thy Race!"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)