Date: 1805
"Touched with my care, my tyrant may prove kind, / Nor let that form conceal an iron mind."
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1805
"The Saxon saw, advanced, nor looked behind, / Fate hurried on, and courage steel'd his mind."
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1805
"When Courage, through the Scottish ranks confessed, / With his immortal steel incased each breast."
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1807
"No, no; fear, hatred, envy, all have steeled / The heart of England's Queen."
preview | full record— Graham, James (1765-1811)
Date: 1807
"Miscreant! thy words, far from appalling me / With the full marshalled horrors of this day, / They steel my heart"
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Date: 1808
"Secure, his adamantine heart / In learning's musty cell / Repell'd poor Cupid's powerful dart, / And slighted every belle"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"In panoply of lead and brass / Their cautious hearts unfold, / Which beauty cannot pierce, alas! / Unless with darts of gold!"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"The soft harp's many-sounding strings, / Wak'd by the blushing maid, / Could melt the iron hearts of kings, / And beauty's influence aid"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"Yet our souls are so crusted with housewifely moss, / That Fancy's bright furnace yields nothing but dross:"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"Yet adamantine souls, and iron forms, / Hard brac'd by toil, and nurst among the storms, / Whom pleasure ne'er could melt, or terror freeze, / Can trace undaunted even such scenes as these"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)