Date: 1762
"To mine the king of Iniscon,' said Connal, 'heart of steel'"
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1762
"But when the king came, in the sound of his course, what heart of steel could stand!"
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1762
"My soul, that never melted before; it was like the steel of my sword"
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1765
"To give a heart of triple steel / The Lord's humanity to feel"
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1767
"A heart of oak, and breast of brass / Were his, who first presum'd on seas to pass, / And ever ventur'd to engage, / In a slight skiff, with ocean's desperate rage."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771); Horace (65 B.C. -8 B.C.)
Date: 1770
"Sylvia, if you persist to steel your heart, / Expect a mansion in that dire abode."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1770
"Mean while, the duties of a man revolve, / And steel thy bosom with the firm resolve"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1776
"One breast alone against his rage was steel'd, / Secure in spotless Truth's celestial shield"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1776
"Forgive, O king, if as a man I feel, / I bear no bosom of obdurate steel"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1786
"With Iron Bosom, tho' the Beast he slew, / The Charms of melting Love Alcides knew!"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838); Moschus