Date: 1806

"I'll hear no tales, listen to none of the charities of life: my heart is steeled"

— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)

Date: 1806

"When I ogled sweet Bess, from my glances she / For she had a bosom of steel--"

— Hoare, Prince (1755-1834); Kotzebue (1761-1819)

Date: 1806

"Shall the caprice of nature, the deep tint / Of sultry climes, the feature varying, / Or the uncultur'd mind, endure the scourge / Of sordid tyranny, or heap the stores / Of his fair fellow man, whose ruddy cheek / Knows not the tear of pity; whose white breast / Conceals a heart, than adamant m...

— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)

Date: 1807

"Tyrants have wept; and those with hearts of steel, / Unused the anguish of the heart to heal"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1807

"No, no; fear, hatred, envy, all have steeled / The heart of England's Queen."

— Graham, James (1765-1811)

Date: 1807

"Miscreant! thy words, far from appalling me / With the full marshalled horrors of this day, / They steel my heart"

— Graham, James (1765-1811)

Date: 1807-8

"Thus with the show of reason, but with hearts, / By faction tainted, and by envy steel'd / Against their youthful leader, they had hop'd / By these inglorious councils to degrade / And tarnish his high fame."

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

Date: w. 1797-1807, published 1893

"With tears of sorrow incessant she labourd the food of Orc / Compelld by the iron hearted sisters Daughters of Urizen"

— Blake, William (1757-1827)

Date: w. 1797-1807, published 1893

"Weeping at the threshold of Existence I will steel my heart / Against thee to Eternity & never recieve thee more"

— Blake, William (1757-1827)

Date: 1808

"Judge not the Man by his exterior part: / Virtue's strong root in every soil will grow, / Rich ores lie buried under piles of snow"

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)