Date: 1774
"The nymph, who in my bosom reigns, / With such full force my heart enchains, / That nothing ever can impair / The empire she possesses there."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1776
"Oh! jealousy, / Thou tyrant of the mind."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1778
"Do you think the public opinion, his various doubts of himself, and of her, the pride of his family, and the loud claims of avarice, his ruling passion 'till now, won't prove near an equipoise to his love?"
preview | full record— Foote, Samuel (1720-1777)
Date: 1785
"I was surpriz'd, taken unawares, passion ran away with me like an unbroke horse: but I have got him under now; I can govern him with a twine of thread."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
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: March 8, 1790
"Love does all day the soul's great empire keep; / But Wine, at night, lulls the soft God asleep."
preview | full record— Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823)
Date: April 17, 1795
"Like Britain's Monarch" an audience may "act [their] generous parts, /And fix [their] empire, in [actors] greatful hearts.
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: January 13, 1796
"Come then, sweet sounds, for you alone / Can bid the tumult cease, / Restore reason to it's throne / His bosom to it's peace."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)