Date: w. 1787, 1797
"They only who are curst with breasts of steel / Can mock the foibles of surviving love"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1797, 1810
"For pressure but new-springs the generous mind; /As gold by Vulcan's torture is refined."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: July 1797, 1810
"See, while his thunders iron hearts assail, / The tyrants of each hemisphere turn pale!"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: w. 1794, 1797
"'Tis only those of purer clay / 'From sensual dross refined, / 'In whom the passions pleas'd obey / 'The God within the mind, / 'Who share my delegated aid, / 'Through Wisdom's golden mean convey'd / 'From the first source of sov'reign good."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1798
"For scenes that frequent views of death impart, / Nerve the bold arm, and steel the manly heart"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1799
"E'en orcs and river-dragons felt / Their iron bosoms melt / With scorching heat"
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
Date: w. 1779, published 1800
"His iron-heart with Scripture he assail'd, / Woo'd him to hear a sermon, and prevail'd."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: w. 1779, published 1800
"Now strike me to the ground, on which I kneel, / Ere yet this heart relapses into steel;"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1800
"Thee, rich Herodes! Honour has enroll'd / For elegance of mind that match'd thy gold:"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1800
"Steel were the heart / That could this passing spectacle survey, / Nor feel the touch of sympathy within."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)