Date: 1791
"Thou hast an heart of iron, terrour-proof."
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Date: 1791
"Hard was his lot, whom these rare qualities / Preserved not, neither had his dauntless heart / Been iron, had he 'scaped his cruel doom."
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Date: 1791
"I will encounter him, though his hands be fire, / Though fire his hands, and his heart hammer'd steel."
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Date: 1791, 1806
To Shakespeare's illumined sight was consigned "The rugged cavern of the Murd'rer's breast"
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Date: 1791
"and my mother's mind / In doubtful balance hangs, if still with me / An inmate, she shall manage my concerns, / Attentive only to her absent Lord / And her own good report"
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Date: 1791, 1800
"Then from the iron tablet of my mind, / Will I efface my catalogue of wrongs."
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Date: 1792
Marks of mind are "Stamp'd on each countenance"
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Date: 1792
Sleep may be "exil'd from this tortur'd breast"
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Date: 1792
"Ah me! the passion that my soul misled / Was check'd, not conquer'd; buried, but not dead."
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