Date: 1715-1720
"Nor from yon' Boaster shall your Chief retire, / Not tho' his Heart were Steel, his Hands were Fire; / That Fire, that Steel, your Hector shou'd withstand, / And brave that vengeful Heart, that dreadful Hand."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"The Furies that relentless Breast have steel'd, / And curs'd thee with a Heart that cannot yield."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"Singly to pass thro' Hosts of Foes! to face / (Oh Heart of Steel!) the Murd'rer of thy Race!"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"Heav'n sure has arm'd thee with a Heart of Steel, / A Strength proportion'd to the Woes you feel."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"Then with his Sceptre that the Deep controuls, / He touch'd the Chiefs, and steel'd their manly Souls"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"The Monarch spoke: the Words with Warmth addrest / To rigid Justice steel'd his Brother's Breast."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1718 [first published 1684-1694]
"And not our Houses alone, when (as SOPHOCLES has it) they stand long untenanted, run the faster to ruine, but Mens natural parts lying unemployed for lack of Acquaintance with the World, contract a kind of filth or rust and craziness thereby."
preview | full record— Plutarch (c. 46-120)
Date: 1719
"He forms our generals for the field, / With all their dreadful skill; / Gives them his awful sword to wield, / And makes their hearts of steel."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1719
"Hard was his Heart, inclos'd in Folds of Brass, / Who in a feeble Bark first boldly try'd / The Watry Path and Region of the Seas, /And adverse Winds and swelling Waves defy'd"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1721, 1722
"But a voice from heaven was heard, which determined all disputes; he shall not be removed out of the hands of mortals, because happy are the breasts that shall give him suck, the hands that shall hold him, and the bed on which he shall rest! after so many striking evidences, my dear Joshua, the ...
preview | full record— Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755)