Date: 1793
"To solace mental fatigue by the amusements of fancy, is no loss of time. Students know how often the eye is busied in wandering over the page, while the mind lies in torpid inactivity; they therefore compute their time, not by the hours consumed in study, but by the real acquisitions they obtain...
preview | full record— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)
Date: 1794
" The Human Face, a Furnace seal'd / The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1794, 1800
"Be hot with wrath, great iron-hearted Mack"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1794, 1797
"If you have reduced me to the necessity of again debating the same painful and gloomy question, if you cannot give that elasticity to my mind which will animate it to despise difficulty and steel it against injustice, however good your intentions may have been, I fear you have but imposed misery...
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Date: 1795
France "spurning base controul ... pluck'd the iron from her wounded soul [and] O'erthrew her proud Bastile, as with a charm"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1795
"Disdaining even the thought of flight or fear, / His life, his soul, by steady valor steel'd."
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
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: 1795
"Still to be serious, Pitt, before we part: / Let Mercy melt the mill-stone of thy heart."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1796
"There lux'ry spreads profusion wide, / To glut the iron breast of pride!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)