Date: 1791
"I will encounter him, though his hands be fire, / Though fire his hands, and his heart hammer'd steel."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1792
"Men!--Men! false! treacherous crocodiles! Your eyes are water! your hearts are iron!"
preview | full record— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1792
"The tears, the supplications of his father, never reach'd his iron heart.-- "
preview | full record— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1795, 1796
The "anvil of gnawing conscience is never cool"
preview | full record— Timaeus, J. J. (1763-1809); Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)