Date: 1725-6
"Heav'n has not curst me with a heart of steel, / But giv'n the sense, to pity, and to feel."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1725-6
"Deep in my soul the trust shall lodge secur'd, / With ribs of steel, and marble heart immur'd"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1725-6
"And oh my Queen! he cries; what pow'r above / Has steel'd that heart, averse to spousal love!"
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Date: 1725-6
"O cruel thou! some fury sure has steel'd / That stubborn soul, by toil untaught to yield!"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1725-6
"But sure relentless folly steels thy breast, / Obdurate to reject the stranger-guest"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1727, 1739
"The Friend of Life! Death unrelenting bears / An iron Heart, and laughs at human Cares."
preview | full record— Broome, William (1689-1745); Hesiod
Date: 1728
Death is an "iron-hearted, and of cruel soul, / Brasen his breast, nor can he brook controul, / To whom, and ne'er return, all mortals go, / And even to immortal gods a foe"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1728, 1740
"Savage their nature, and their hearts of stone; / Their houses brass, of brass the warlike blade"
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Date: 1735
"Impenetrable Courage steels his manly Breast"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1737
"Brave Souls when loos'd from this ignoble Chain / Of Clay, and sent to their own Heav'n again, / From Earth's gross Orb on Virtue's Pinions rise / In Æther wanton, and enjoy the Skies."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)