Date: 1762
"A Scythian's heart is steel'd 'gainst panic terrors."
preview | full record— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)
Date: 1787
"Thus had he spoke, while pride his bosom steels, / Nor granted Frenchmen wit--but in their heels."
preview | full record— Inchbald, Elizabeth (1753-1821); Damaniant
Date: 1792
"Men!--Men! false! treacherous crocodiles! Your eyes are water! your hearts are iron!"
preview | full record— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1792
"The tears, the supplications of his father, never reach'd his iron heart.-- "
preview | full record— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1795, 1796
The "anvil of gnawing conscience is never cool"
preview | full record— Timaeus, J. J. (1763-1809); Friedrich von 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
"The heart of a physician should be in full steel and armour, like the body of a tortoise"
preview | full record— Ludger, Conrad (b. 1748)
Date: 1799
"Ignorance has set her stamp upon him--his mind seared to every virtuous impression--his heart flint, and his temper moved by the slightest breath"
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)