Date: 1819
One may take "all my counterfeit address / 'For sterling passion, should the like profess?"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1819
"Nor cleed your little heart in steel, / For Nature bade the lintie feel"
preview | full record— Gall, Richard (1776-1801)
Date: 1819
""But an accursed dream has steel'd thy breast, / 'And all the woman in thy soul suppress'd."--"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1820
"And the beasts, and the birds, and the insects were drowned / In an ocean of dreams without a sound; / Whose waves never mark, though they ever impress / The light sand which paves it, consciousness"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1820
Yet he ne'er vainly strove to steel [...] His heart, and bid him not to feel, / But yielded to what Heav'n thought fit"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1820
"And they [Stewart, Tracy, Cabanis] ask why may not the mode of action called thought, have been given to a material organ of peculiar structure, as that of magnetism is to the needle, or of elasticity to the spring by a particular manipulation of the steel."
preview | full record— Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
Date: 1821
"'Ah, move,' he said, 'and you shall feel / That Paddy has a heart of steel"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1823
The "venom'd shafts" of Cupid "empoison mortal joy," "Drawing from heav'n the soul of man to earth, / With foul alloy debasing purest treasure."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1824
"'I rose; and, bending at her sweet command, / Touched with faint lips the cup she raised, / And suddenly my brain became as sand / 'Where the first wave had more than half erased / The track of deer on desert Labrador; / Whilst the wolf, from which they fled amazed, / 'Leaves his stamp visibly u...
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1825
"Bear thy afflictions with a patient mind; / Whose bursting heart disdains unjust controul, / Who feel'st oppression's iron in thy soul, / Who dragg'st the load of faint and feeble years, / Whose bread is anguish, and whose water tears."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)