Date: 1778
"As to my Fanny and myself, our souls had been created, like sympathetic steel and magnet, to leap together at first sight!"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1780
"Pull away, my lads, pull away; that's my hearts of gold, pull away"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1780
"Then bravely on, my hearts of steel, / The haughty foe is vap'ring;"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1780
"I must steel my heart against the allurements of friendship and of pleasure"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1784
"Pistols prim'd and carbines loaded, / Courage strikes on hearts of steel"
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1786
Uncouth men may have "minds like rich metals, as yet unpurify'd from alloy; but let it once be known that the ore is gold, and the refiner's hand will soon bring forth the bullion"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1788
"O yes, this is his valet that Lady Jane mentioned, this is her O'Donovan and my Aircourt, but my heart is steel'd against him"
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1792
"We from your judgment to your hearts appeal, / Generous as brave, you are not hearts of steel"
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1795
"--a band, whose steely hearts are rivetted with oaths, will aid thee."
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)
Date: 1797
"And every sordid, base alloy, / Let's from our bosoms move; / For was our gold but Irish brass, / Good humour's stamp can make it pass"
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)