Date: 1755
"Malice away, with all her Scorpions, creeps, / And Marius, iron-hearted Marius, weeps."
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1755
"What Heart of Steel shall dare t'oppose / And league among his hard'ned Foes?"
preview | full record— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)
Date: 1755
"'In glad Submission bow ye down, / ' Nor steel that stubborn Heart."
preview | full record— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)
Date: 1756
"A war of passions in their breasts they feel / As the muse fires, who have not hearts of Steel."
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1757
"Not sure where found the noble mind: / From vulgar dross and dregs refin'd: / High polish'd--and obdure!"
preview | full record— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)
Date: w. 1757, 1758
"What Briton wears a heart, steel'd to the touch / Of gentle Pity? "
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1758
"COME, Epictetus, arm my breast / With thy impenetrable steel, / No more the wounds of grief to feel, / Nor mourn, by others' woes deprest."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1758
"Check not the flow of sweet fraternal love, / By Heav'n's high King in bounty giv'n, / Thy stubborn heart to soften and improve, / Thy earth-clad spirit to refine, / And gradual raise to love divine, / And wing its soaring flight to Heav'n!"
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1759
"Our suffering souls like gold refine, / And whiten us in blood Divine."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles