Date: 1754
"For Damons's heart is true as steel, / And hard as flint is Phyllida's."
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
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: 1755
"Malice away, with all her Scorpions, creeps, / And Marius, iron-hearted Marius, weeps."
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1755
"What Heart of Steel shall dare t'oppose / And league among his hard'ned Foes?"
preview | full record— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)
Date: 1755
"'In glad Submission bow ye down, / ' Nor steel that stubborn Heart."
preview | full record— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)
Date: 1756
"A war of passions in their breasts they feel / As the muse fires, who have not hearts of Steel."
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1757
"Not sure where found the noble mind: / From vulgar dross and dregs refin'd: / High polish'd--and obdure!"
preview | full record— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)
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: 1759
"Our suffering souls like gold refine, / And whiten us in blood Divine."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles