Date: 1789
"A passion like mine, makes the heart rebellious--it will love on--it will hope, in spite of the rules cold reason dictates"
preview | full record— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)
Date: 1789
"I would not be thought to undervalue worldly enjoyments, nor outward appearances: but I look into the interior of a man; I study the character, that is my habit."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1789
"How far am I raised above a girl educated among antelopes; a girl, whose heart must ever be a stranger to love!"
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
Date: 1789
"Here lies her bracelet of flowers, exquisitely perfumed by the root of síura which had been spread on her bosom: it has fallen from her delicate wrist, and is become a new chain for my heart."
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
Date: 1789, 1797
"Ah, say, deluded Maid, / Would you, whose mind is pure as winter's snow, / Assort with one distain'd by foulest guilt, / Whose nightly rest the murther'd sprites would break."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George Monck (1763-1793)
Date: 1789, 1797
"Each motive base it [the soul] nobly spurns, / And bright with purest passion burns."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George Monck (1763-1793)
Date: 1789, 1797
"Still in this breast shall dearest Emma reign, / Nor e'er my will your virgin choice shall sway."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George Monck (1763-1793)
Date: 1790
"[W]hile I live, your generosity and valour shall be engraven on my heart"
preview | full record— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841)
Date: 1790
"[W]hile I live his generosity must be engraved on my heart"
preview | full record— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841); Miles Peter Andrews (d. 1814)
Date: 1790
"The hour approaches when we must for ever separate! Steel your bosom and weep not."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809); Johann Christian Brandes (1735-1799)