Date: w. January 24, 1789
"Reason drops headlong from his sacred throne."
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Date: w. January 24, 1789
"Your dear idea reigns, and reigns alone; / Each thought intoxicated homage yields, / And riots wanton in forbidden fields."
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Date: 1789, 1800
"On his one ruling passion Sir Pope hugely labors, / That, like th'old Hebrew walking-switch, eats up its neighbours."
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Date: 1789, 1800
"Human Nature's his show-box--your friend, would you know him? / Pull the string, Ruling Passion--the picture will show him."
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Date: 1793
"Alas the sex you little know, / Their ruling passion is a Beau."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1794
The mists of faction may pour around one's head
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1799
"And, in the waveless mirror of his mind, / Views the fleet years of pleasure left behind, / Since Anna's empire o'er his heart began!"
preview | full record— Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844)