Date: 1754
"Such high regard on Piety I place, / On pure simplicity of life; a breast / Steel'd against bribes, by naked truth possess'd, / And with a spotless rigid conscience blest"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: w. 1757, 1758
"What Briton wears a heart, steel'd to the touch / Of gentle Pity? "
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1762-3
"Vainly thy precepts are address'd / Where Virtue steels the steady breast."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
Dryden "Gave [Sigismunda] those griefs, which made the Stoic feel, / And call'd compassion forth from hearts of steel"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"With firm resolves my steady bosom steel, / Bravely to suffer, tho' I deeply feel."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1764
'In spring eternal, lay a plain / Where our brave fathers used to train / Their sons to arms, to teach the art / Of war, and steel the infant heart."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1764
"Beyond this to awake our zeal, / To quicken our resolves, and steel / Our steady souls to bloody bent,"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1764
"When she with apathy the breast would steel, / And teach us, deeply feeling, not to feel"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1765
"And bid the flame each heart refine, / As silver recent from the mine"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)
Date: 1765
"To give a heart of triple steel / The Lord's humanity to feel"
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)