Date: 1805

"The Saxon saw, advanced, nor looked behind, / Fate hurried on, and courage steel'd his mind."

— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)

Date: 1805

"And oft thy prostituted wheel / Turns to enrich a heart of steel."

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Date: 1805

"When Courage, through the Scottish ranks confessed, / With his immortal steel incased each breast."

— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)

Date: 1805

"I've a hole in my heart, you may through it drive a cart"

— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)

Date: 1805

"There, as those cells [Satan's myrmidons] empty found / Where brains in wiser pates abound, / They fill'd them with mephitic gas / From hell, which downward strove to pass, / But, gaining exit through the throat, / By leave of porter, Epiglott, / Vented itself in fustian storm / Rhetorical."

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

Date: 1805

"Shall she pronounce that generous Heart / A store-room vile of selfish Art?"

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Date: 1805

"Hampton! 'tis thus thy scenes I view, / In Time and Mem'ry's mirror true."

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Date: 1805

"[N]or shall the heav'n-born mind / Oblivious linger in the silent cave / Of endless hopeless sleep"

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Date: 1805

"When you, my Friend, in lucky hour, / Bestow'd the sight-relieving power; / A boon as useful as 'tis kind-- / Yet had no Eye but of the mind-- / Had I been deaf, and blind, and dumb, / For half a century to come, / That Eye, in vision bright and clear, / Would view your worth, and ...

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Date: 1805?

One may hold "fearful council" with his breast

— Thelwall, John (1764-1834)