Date: 1752

"The Man, who sharpen'd first the warlike Steel, / How fell and deadly was his iron Heart"

— Hammond, James (1710-1742)

Date: 1752

"His Hope revives, fresh Courage steels his Heart."

— Browne, Moses (1706-1787)

Date: 1752, 1790

The gentleman "To Figg and Broughton ... commits his breast, / To steel it to the fashionable test

— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)

Date: 1752, 1790

A mind may be "soft, tho' bright, like her own eyes, / Discreetly witty, gayly wise."

— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)

Date: 1752, 1791

"Is apathy, is heart of steel, / Nor ear to hear, nor sense to feel."

— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)

Date: November 1752, 1791

"When up the imperceptible ascent / Of growing years, led by thy hand, I rose, / Perception's gradual light, that ever dawns / Insensibly to day, thou didst vouchsafe, / And teach me by that reason thou inspir'dst."

— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)

Date: February 4, 1752

"When we are employed in reading a great and good Author, we ought to consider ourselves as searching after Treasures, which, if well and regularly laid up in the Mind, will be of use to us on sundry Occasions in our Lives."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: February 18, 1752

"A Good Name, says the Dramatic Poet, is the immediate Jewel of a Man's Soul."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: March 24, 1752

"The Mind of Man is compared by Montaigne to a fertile Field, which tho' it be left entirely uncultivated, still retains all its genial Powers; but instead of producing any Thing lovely or profitable, sends forth only Weeds and wild Herbs of various Kinds, which serve to no Use or Emolument whats...

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

"The wise alone, / Who only bows to reason's throne; / Whom neither want, nor death, nor chains, / Nor subtle persecutor's pains, / Nor honours, wealth, nor lust can move / From virtue and his country's love."

— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)