Date: 1713
"The Rafters sink, and bury'd with his Coin / That Fate does with his living Thoughts combine; / For still his Heart's inclos'd within a Golden Mine."
preview | full record— Finch [née], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)
Date: June, 1720
"Daring and unco' stout he was, / With Heart hool'd in three Sloughs of Brass, Wha ventur'd first upon the Sea / With Hempen Branks, and Horse of Tree"
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1721
"For who can hear the Lad complain, / And not participate and feel / His artless undissembled Pain, / Unless he has a Heart of Steel."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1721
"Their Hearts made of Stone, or of Steel are, / That are not Adorers of KATE."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1748
"the Persian Bands / In fearful Wonder ask; What God unseen / Such Pow'r bestow'd, and steel'd a Woman's Heart"
preview | full record— Warton, Thomas, the elder (1688-1745)
Date: 1748
"These be now my Cares, / To leave the Muse for Virtue [...] but chief my Soul to steel / With adamantine Honour"
preview | full record— Warton, Thomas, the elder (1688-1745)