Date: 1710

"Never from my repenting Thoughts depart, / But stand, like Brass, imprinted in my Heart."

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

Date: 1710

"I took thee for a Saint, but find, alas! / Thy Heart is Iron, and thy Face is Brass;"

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

Date: 1713

"These purer thoughts, from gross alloys refined, / With heavenly raptures elevate the mind."

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1713

Wine may gild "the Thought with Chymick Art"

— 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."

— 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."

— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)

Date: 1715-1720

"Proud as he is, that Iron-heart retains / Its stubborn Purpose, and his Friends disdains"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1715-1720

"Is then the dire Achilles all your Care? / That Iron Heart, inflexibly severe."

— 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."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1715

"He Steels his Heart, unknowing to repent"

— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)