Date: 1845
"No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose."
preview | full record— Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Date: 1845
"Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness."
preview | full record— Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Date: 1845
"I then presented an appearance enough to affect any but a heart of iron."
preview | full record— Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Date: 1850
"The characters of the narrative would not be warmed and rendered malleable by any heat that I could kindle at my intellectual forge."
preview | full record— Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
Date: 1854
"By nonsense he meant fancy; and truly it is probable she was as free from any alloy of that nature, as any human being not arrived at the perfection of an absolute idiot, ever was."
preview | full record— Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
Date: 1854
"They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: 1859
"(For sure thy sire had not a heart of steel)"
preview | full record— Skinner, Rev. John (1721-1807)
Date: 1862
"O may not gold, according to its kind, / Twist round your heart, and grow upon your mind!"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1862
"My heart within me like a stone / Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears."
preview | full record— Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894)
Date: 1868
"The strong man arm'd this moment bind, / The bold usurper of Thy throne, / His armour seize, the carnal mind, / The unbelieving heart of stone, / Out of my flesh the evil tear, / And pluck my soul out of the snare."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles