Date: 1751, 1774

"Her heart pursued spite with black intent, / Ne could her iron mind at human woes relent."

— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)

Date: 1752

"The Man, who sharpen'd first the warlike Steel, / How fell and deadly was his iron Heart"

— Hammond, James (1710-1742)

Date: 1752

"His Hope revives, fresh Courage steels his Heart."

— Browne, Moses (1706-1787)

Date: 1752, 1790

The gentleman "To Figg and Broughton ... commits his breast, / To steel it to the fashionable test

— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)

Date: 1752, 1791

"Is apathy, is heart of steel, / Nor ear to hear, nor sense to feel."

— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)

Date: 1753

"So, gold, pernicious in its nature, may, / By souls, like yours, be bent a nobler way:/ Thus, as the needle, by magnetic force, / Once touch'd, still, to the magnet guides its course. / Trembling, while wand'ring thence, and finds no rest, / 'Till clasp'd, and fastened, to its darling breast."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1753

"Rouse, from their roots in earth, hearts, hard as steel, / And teach, once more, the trees, and beasts, to feel!"

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1753

"Herald vengeance! swift arise! / Shell, with steel, thy flinty heart!"

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1753

"But will you fly the heroe you approve? / And steel your heart against a prince you love?"

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)

Date: 1753

"When Flora sweeps the Table with a Vole, / What Breast so steel'd as Grief can not invade, / To see the Havock on her Beautys made!"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)