Date: 1784

"Pistols prim'd and carbines loaded, / Courage strikes on hearts of steel"

— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)

Date: 1785

"While in high life our hearts the fashions steel, / Too gay to listen, and too fine to feel--"

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

Date: 1786

Uncouth men may have "minds like rich metals, as yet unpurify'd from alloy; but let it once be known that the ore is gold, and the refiner's hand will soon bring forth the bullion"

— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)

Date: 1787

"Thus had he spoke, while pride his bosom steels, / Nor granted Frenchmen wit--but in their heels."

— Inchbald, Elizabeth (1753-1821); Damaniant

Date: First performed August 4, 1787

"Ill founded precept too long has steel'd my breast--but still 'tis vulnerable-- this trial was too muc"

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)

Date: 1788

"True love purifies the soul from every base alloy."

— Cobb, James (1756-1818)

Date: 1788

"O yes, this is his valet that Lady Jane mentioned, this is her O'Donovan and my Aircourt, but my heart is steel'd against him"

— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)

Date: 1790

"The hour approaches when we must for ever separate! Steel your bosom and weep not."

— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809); Johann Christian Brandes (1735-1799)

Date: 1792

"Men!--Men! false! treacherous crocodiles! Your eyes are water! your hearts are iron!"

— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)

Date: 1792

"The tears, the supplications of his father, never reach'd his iron heart.-- "

— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)