Date: 1774
"Oh, there's been precious doings with the Hearts of Steel"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1775
"That heart, by war and honour steel'd to fear, / Droops on a sigh, and sickens at a tear!"
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
"But, O, my brother! if thou hast a heart / That is not steel'd with stoic apathy / Against the magic of all-conqu'ring love, / Beware of beauty's pow'r; for she has charms / Wou'd melt the frozen breast of hoary age, / Or draw the lonely hermit from his cell / To gaze upon her."
preview | full record— Francklin, Thomas (1721-1784)
Date: 1777
"Pale-eyed Affright, his heart of silver hue, / In vain essayed her bosom to acale."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1778
"I must first see what state my troops are in.--Go you, Drill, and bring 'em before us--here they come! here they come--come on my hearts of gold"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1778
"As to my Fanny and myself, our souls had been created, like sympathetic steel and magnet, to leap together at first sight!"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1780
"Pull away, my lads, pull away; that's my hearts of gold, pull away"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1780
"Then bravely on, my hearts of steel, / The haughty foe is vap'ring;"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1780
"I must steel my heart against the allurements of friendship and of pleasure"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1784
"No, Edwitha--you have a native dignity of mind incapable of degradation or alloy."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)