Date: 1762

"Out of their hearts the dross remove, / Their worldly care, and worldly love; / As silver and as gold refine"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1763

Dryden "Gave [Sigismunda] those griefs, which made the Stoic feel, / And call'd compassion forth from hearts of steel"

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1763

"With firm resolves my steady bosom steel, / Bravely to suffer, tho' I deeply feel."

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1764

'In spring eternal, lay a plain / Where our brave fathers used to train / Their sons to arms, to teach the art / Of war, and steel the infant heart."

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1764

"Beyond this to awake our zeal, / To quicken our resolves, and steel / Our steady souls to bloody bent,"

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1764

"When she with apathy the breast would steel, / And teach us, deeply feeling, not to feel"

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1764

"Against ev'ry virtue the bosom to steel, / And only of dress the anxieties feel"

— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)

Date: 1764, 1773

"But 'tis not Gomez, 'tis not he whose heart / Is crusted o'er with dross, whose callous mind / Is senseless as his gold."

— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)

Date: 1764, 1773

"Beyond the frantic rage / Of conq'ring heroes brave, the female mind, / When steel'd by love, in love's most horrid way / Beholds not danger, or beholding scorns"

— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)

Date: 1764

"Shall the winged Inhabitants of Air come tamely to the Hand that feeds them; and shall Man steel his Heart against all Impressions of Kindness, and all Sentiments of GRATITUDE?"

— Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784)