Date: 1764
'In spring eternal, lay a plain / Where our brave fathers used to train / Their sons to arms, to teach the art / Of war, and steel the infant heart."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1764
"Beyond this to awake our zeal, / To quicken our resolves, and steel / Our steady souls to bloody bent,"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1764
"When she with apathy the breast would steel, / And teach us, deeply feeling, not to feel"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1765
"And bid the flame each heart refine, / As silver recent from the mine"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)
Date: 1765
"To give a heart of triple steel / The Lord's humanity to feel"
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1765
"O Judah, if in this thy day / My Will thou purpose to obey, / Steel not thy breast to truths divine, / As erst the Fathers of thy line"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)
Date: 1766
"[I]t was a truth her reason could more easily perceive, than her heart feel, for it was steeled by habit"
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Date: 1766
"I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that the lessons of wisdom have never such a power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be ...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1767
"For oh the time will come, when you shall feel / Stabs in your heart more sharp than stabs of steel"
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1767, 1784
"Think not my breast is steel'd against the claims / Of sweet humanity."
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)