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)
Date: 1805
"And, indeed, so long as chivalry lasted, the minstrels were protected and caressed, because their music tended to do honour to the ruling passion of the times, and to encourage and foment a martial spirit."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1805
One may have a heart that is "the throne of every charity which adorns humanity, and of every aspiration that ascends to God."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1808
Love of native soil is a ruling passion that may intervene in restless scenes
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1810
"Hence are his senses to his reason subject."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1813
One passion governs every gallant mind
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)