Date: 1715-1720

"The Furies that relentless Breast have steel'd, / And curs'd thee with a Heart that cannot yield."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1715-1720

"Singly to pass thro' Hosts of Foes! to face / (Oh Heart of Steel!) the Murd'rer of thy Race!"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1715-1720

"Heav'n sure has arm'd thee with a Heart of Steel, / A Strength proportion'd to the Woes you feel."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1715-1720

"Then with his Sceptre that the Deep controuls, / He touch'd the Chiefs, and steel'd their manly Souls"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1715-1720

"The Monarch spoke: the Words with Warmth addrest / To rigid Justice steel'd his Brother's Breast."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1719

"He forms our generals for the field, / With all their dreadful skill; / Gives them his awful sword to wield, / And makes their hearts of steel."

— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

Date: 1719

"Hard was his Heart, inclos'd in Folds of Brass, / Who in a feeble Bark first boldly try'd / The Watry Path and Region of the Seas, /And adverse Winds and swelling Waves defy'd"

— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)

Date: 1724, 1787

"Sure thou wilt weep, and tender sorrows feel; / Nor flint thy heart, nor is thy breast of steel."

— Welsted, Leonard (1688-1747)

Date: 1728

Death is an "iron-hearted, and of cruel soul, / Brasen his breast, nor can he brook controul, / To whom, and ne'er return, all mortals go, / And even to immortal gods a foe"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1728, 1740

"Savage their nature, and their hearts of stone; / Their houses brass, of brass the warlike blade"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)