Date: 1797
"here's Redmond O'Hanlon, though now the constable and the county keeper, yet he was a heart of steel, that I'm sure of."
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1797
"For then first throbb'd an heart of steel."
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1798
"And, sir, it may be prudent for you to remember, that a soldier's heart is like his sword, formed of tempered steel; for while it bends with sympathizing pity to the touch of woe, it can resume its springing energy to punish arrogance, or crush oppression"
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)
Date: 1798
"But I'm a Bust with Heart of Steel, / That can nor Pain nor Pleasure feel."
preview | full record— Elizabeth [née Lady Elizabeth Berkeley], margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth [other married name Elizabeth Craven, Lady Craven] (1750-1828)
Date: 1799
"Their eyes are water! their hearts are brass! Kisses upon their lips! daggers in their hearts!"
preview | full record— Render, William (fl. 1790-1801); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1799
"Men, Men! false, treacherous crocodiles! Your eyes are water--your hearts are iron."
preview | full record— Craven, Keppel (1779-1851); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1799
"I fell at his feet, embrac'd his knees, and wept; conjur'd him, supplicated; the tears, the supplications of his father, never reach'd his iron heart"
preview | full record— Craven, Keppel (1779-1851); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1799
"Men, men! False, treacherous crocodiles! Your eyes are water, your hearts are iron! "
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1799
"Your iron heart brings me to myself"
preview | full record— Inchbald, Elizabeth (1753-1821); Kotzebue (1761-1819)