Date: 1766
"'Till kind applauses every pang suppress'd, / Clos'd every wound, and steel'd my daring breast."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1767
"For oh the time will come, when you shall feel / Stabs in your heart more sharp than stabs of steel"
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1767
"Shun, shun the Wretch, and case your Heart in Steel, / Lose not a Thought on those who cannot feel;"
preview | full record— Lloyd, Evan (1734-1776)
Date: 1767, 1784
"Think not my breast is steel'd against the claims / Of sweet humanity."
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1767, 1784
The native "British Ore" is polished by the social arts, and useful toil: they "polish life, and civilize the mind!"
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1763, 1767
"So stern Philosophy severe affirms, / With shrunk abstracted eye, and iron soul."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1769
"His wealth shall circulate through all her veins, / His flowing gold shall warm her vig'rous heart, / And health and plenty visit ev'ry part;"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1770
"Not greater wonder seiz'd th' abode / Of gloomy Dis, infernal god, / With pity when th' Orphean lyre / Did every iron heart inspire, / Sooth'd tortur'd ghosts with heavenly strains, / And respited eternal pains."
preview | full record— Dalton, John (b. 1709, d. 1763)
Date: 1771
"What steel'd the heart of Brutus, sternly good, / To save fall'n Rome, redeem'd by Cæsar's blood?"
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)
Date: 1771
"Immortal Truth his bosom steels, / And guards him glorious to the goal"
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)