Date: 1710
"Never from my repenting Thoughts depart, / But stand, like Brass, imprinted in my Heart."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1710
"I took thee for a Saint, but find, alas! / Thy Heart is Iron, and thy Face is Brass;"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1713
"These purer thoughts, from gross alloys refined, / With heavenly raptures elevate the mind."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1713
Wine may gild "the Thought with Chymick Art"
preview | full record— Smith, John (fl. 1713)
Date: 1713
"The Rafters sink, and bury'd with his Coin / That Fate does with his living Thoughts combine; / For still his Heart's inclos'd within a Golden Mine."
preview | full record— Finch [née], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)
Date: 1714, 1723
"Tormenting Doubts my troubled Soul perplex, / But my steel'd Breast no certain Fears can vex."
preview | full record— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)
Date: 1715-1720
"Proud as he is, that Iron-heart retains / Its stubborn Purpose, and his Friends disdains"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"Is then the dire Achilles all your Care? / That Iron Heart, inflexibly severe."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"The Gods that unrelenting Breast have steel'd, / And curs'd thee with a Mind that cannot yield."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715
"He Steels his Heart, unknowing to repent"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)