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
"Men, men! False, treacherous crocodiles! Your eyes are water, your hearts are iron! "
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1799
"Your iron heart brings me to myself"
preview | full record— Inchbald, Elizabeth (1753-1821); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"I should be a miserable bungler, indeed, if I could not, after having brought the affair thus far, tear a son from the heart of a father, even though he were rivitted to it with iron bands"
preview | full record— Render, William (fl. 1790-1801); 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: w. 1796, 1799
"My soul was held up by the power of God, as the needle by the loadstone, and I did by faith, with joy draw water out of these wells of salvation."
preview | full record— Osborn, Sarah (1714-1796)
Date: 1799
"Mock as you will, I cannot, like you, steel my heart against the common feelings of humanity"
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
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)
Date: w. 1779, published 1800
"His iron-heart with Scripture he assail'd, / Woo'd him to hear a sermon, and prevail'd."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: w. 1779, published 1800
"Now strike me to the ground, on which I kneel, / Ere yet this heart relapses into steel;"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)