Date: 1747-8
"Because a woman's heart may be at one time adamant, at another wax."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"Rot me if it be not my full persuasion, that if he had, her heart would have been found to be either iron or marble"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"'This, says he, I will for ever remember against her, in order to steel my own heart, that I may cut thro' a rock of ice to hers"
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Date: 1747-8
"Then will I steel my heart with these remembrances"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"But I have now once more steeled my heart."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"But the over-refinement of Platonic sentiments always sinks into the dross and feces of that Passion"
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Date: 1749
"For such was the Compassion which inhabited Mr. Allworthy's Mind, that nothing but the Steel of Justice could ever subdue it. "
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1749
Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek authors "elevate the Mind, and steel and harden it against the capricious Invasions of Fortune."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1749
"Philosophy elevates and steels the Mind, Christianity softens and sweetens it."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1751
"[M]y mother's arguments had steeled his heart"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)