Date: 1702
"Love, Sorrow, and the Sting of vile Reproach, / Succeeding one another in their Course, / Like Drops of Eating Water on the Marble, / At length have worn my boasted Courage down."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1703
"Gold is a sure Bait to gain him, no other Loadstone can attrack his iron heart, 'tis proof against the force of Beauty, else I should not need this Stratagem, for Nature has not prov'd a Nigard to my Daughter."
preview | full record— Centlivre [née Freeman; other married name Carroll], Susanna (bap. 1669?, d. 1723)
Date: 1703
"Ah! Heart of Oak, true as Steel I warrant thee; what, you must needs know Mr. Queenlove."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1705
"[S]he must have lov'd him, though her Heart had been made of Brass"
preview | full record— Centlivre [née Freeman; other married name Carroll], Susanna (bap. 1669?, d. 1723)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"Wilt thou not plead for Life?--Intreat the Tyrant, / And waken Nature in his Iron Heart."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"No, I will steel my Heart against thy Pray'r."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1708
"Passions are too hurrying to last; Vapours that start from a Mercurial Brain, whose wild Chimera's flush the lighter Faculties, which tir'd i'th' vain pursuit of fancy'd Pleasures."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1713
"Why will you fight against so sweet a Passion, / And steel your Heart to such a World of Charms?"
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1713
"Are Ladies Hearts more hard than Stone, / Are Wolves and Bears less fierce?"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1714
"The most, such Iron Hearts we are, and such / The base Barbarity of Humane Kind, / Hooting and Railing, and with Villainous Hands / Gathering the Filth from out the Common Ways, / To hurl upon her Head."
preview | full record— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)