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: 1778, 1788
"Thy tragic pencil, Aristides, caught / Each varied feeling, and each tender thought; / While moral virtue sanctified thy art, / And passion gave it empire o'er the heart."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1779, 1794
"For still its own severest judge, / The generous mind appears; / And when it errs, against itself / A dread tribunal rears."
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)
Date: 1779
"Whate'er this voice by sceptics may be found, / Faction's false cry, or Truth's prophetic sound, / Let ev'ry Briton, with bold Blake, proclaim, / His ruling passion is his Country's fame!."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: w. c. 1779
"[T]hen prudence took her Seat / Within the Soul, and reign'd in Virtue's room."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1780, 1785
"Come then dear and decent favour, / Learn what thou wilt ne'er impart;/ Fix thy throne, and fix it ever, / In the regions of my heart."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1780
"Thy mind expanded to her empire's bound; / There every Science a firm station found."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1780
"Hast thou no failings of thine own, / No ruling passion in thy breast, / That robs thee of thy balmy rest?"
preview | full record— Anstey, Christopher (1724-1805)
Date: 1781
"Well may'st thou bend o'er this congenial sphere; / For Sensibility is sovereign here."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1781, 1791
"How vainly the tumultuous passions strive / To shake his breast! they claim no empire there"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)