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"Heart [from A Dictionary of the English Language in Which Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers.]"
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Date: 1755
"Prest with heart corroding grief and years, / To the gay court a rural shed prefers."
preview | full record— Pope [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold, / A lad of life, and imp of fame."
preview | full record— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"Such iron hearts we are, and such / The base barbarity of human kind."
preview | full record— Rowe [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]