Date: 1715
"He Steels his Heart, unknowing to repent"
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Date: 1715
"What steely Heart can bear, what Tongue recite / The mortal Terrors of that dreadful Night?"
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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."
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Date: 1715-1720
"The Furies that relentless Breast have steel'd, / And curs'd thee with a Heart that cannot yield."
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Date: 1715-1720
"Singly to pass thro' Hosts of Foes! to face / (Oh Heart of Steel!) the Murd'rer of thy Race!"
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Date: 1715-1720
"Heav'n sure has arm'd thee with a Heart of Steel, / A Strength proportion'd to the Woes you feel."
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Date: 1715-1720
"Then with his Sceptre that the Deep controuls, / He touch'd the Chiefs, and steel'd their manly Souls"
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Date: 1715-1720
"The Monarch spoke: the Words with Warmth addrest / To rigid Justice steel'd his Brother's Breast."
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Date: 1715
"Or can they ought that's mean, when God has set / A Jewel in their earthly Cabinet?"
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Date: 1715
"Thus Cynical Men, who out of Pride of their own Parts disdain Company, and can no more endure Conversation than Owls the Day-Light, like Gold in the Bowels of the Earth, their Parts are useless and good for nothing, who cannot without Offence walk the Publick Ways; they are Saints indeed in priv...
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