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: 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: March 8, 1790
"Your pow'r my captive heart in chains shall bind, / Sweet as the graces of your face and mind."
preview | full record— Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823)
Date: 1795
"Lady Ruby is the loadstone that draws away every particle of steel that shou'd fortify my heart, and leaves it weaker than a woman's tear."
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)