Date: 1769
"But, first, I'll tell thee thy detested deeds, / And gall, if possible, thine iron heart."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: 1769
"Something like pity shakes my firm resolves, / And almost melts the iron heart of Zingis."
preview | full record— Dow, Alexander (1735/6-1779)
Date: 1769
"Does thy iron heart / Deny me this--a portion of his grave?"
preview | full record— Dow, Alexander (1735/6-1779)
Date: 1771
"What steel'd the heart of Brutus, sternly good, / To save fall'n Rome, redeem'd by Cæsar's blood?"
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)
Date: 1771
"The selfish brutality of his behaviour on the stairs had steeled their hearts against all his arts and address"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: November 25, 1773
"You've seen me round the bickers reel / Wi' heart as hale as temper'd steel,"
preview | full record— Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)
Date: 1774
"Fancy throws out both the worthless earth and the rich ore; judgment, like a skilful refiner, distinguishes the one from the other, and purifies the gold contained in the latter, from the dross with which it is intermingled."
preview | full record— Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)
Date: 1774
"His breast, with native courage steel'd, / On fear could ne'er one thought bestow"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1776
"One breast alone against his rage was steel'd, / Secure in spotless Truth's celestial shield"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1776
"Forgive, O king, if as a man I feel, / I bear no bosom of obdurate steel"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)