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)
Date: 1809
"Manhood, Shame, / And sense of Folly--all conspire, / To steel their Hearts, and rouse their Fire, / And vindicate their Honour's claim"
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)
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
""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: 1838
"Hard was his heart; but yet a heart of steel / May melt in dying, and dissolving feel."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)