Date: 1790
"Her sickly mind / Was ill at ease, though seated on the throne / of affluence and plenty."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
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: 1790
'While we converse together, and I feel / 'Secret correction from the bolt of truth / 'Shot home, my better soul in triumph rides, / Borne on the wings of reason to her throne."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
One may have two souls "which, like two mighty Kings, / 'Ever contending for the sov'reignty, / 'Stir up sedition and revolt within"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
A better soul "by revolution strange" may come to sit on her throne
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
"O lovely queen, / Beauty usurps the empire of my heart, / All its affections."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1789, 1791, 1799
"Throned in the vaulted heart, his dread resort, / Inexorable Conscience holds his court"
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: February 1791
"It has apparently burst forth like a creation from a chaos, but it is no more than the consequence of a mental revolution priorily existing in France."
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1792
Sleep may be "exil'd from this tortur'd breast"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1792
"Perhaps too, they will endeavour to support their opinion from the authority of Aristotle in his politics, where he endeavours to prove, that some men are naturally born slaves, and others free; and that the slavish part of mankind ought to be governed by the independent, in the same manner as t...
preview | full record— Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835)