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"Translation"
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Gender of Author:
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Literary Period:
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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Date: 1765
"To give a heart of triple steel / The Lord's humanity to feel"
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1770
"Sylvia, if you persist to steel your heart, / Expect a mansion in that dire abode."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1770
"Mean while, the duties of a man revolve, / And steel thy bosom with the firm resolve"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1788
"When Passion's tides thro' mans' strong art'ries roar, / His heart resists them like a flinty shore; / But our frail frames, like mould'ring banks, give way."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)