Date: January 13, 1796
"Forbear! there is a spirit within me, sunk tho' I am in misery and despair, that will not suffer you, tho' now a conqueror in your turn, and towering far above the wretched son of Hastings, to take this base advantage of your fortune, and drag a trembling victim to the altar only to riot in the ...
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1796
"He pronounced the most severe sentences upon offenders, which the moment after compassion induced him to mitigate: he undertook the most daring enterprizes, which the fear of their consequences soon obliged him to abandon: his inborn genius darted a brilliant light upon subjects the most obscure...
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1797
A boy with the the divine gift of beauty may conquer "each heart he lists" nor needs Cupid's "shafts to aid his victories"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1797
" For, Cupid, well thou know'st, the tender soul, / That Poesy inspires, is very wax / To Beauty's piercing ray"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1797
"[M]ark it well, / And stamp the awful moral on your souls"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1797
" Soft female hearts are prone as wax to melt, / And, true or false, impressions will be felt;"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1797
"Youth's yielding clay too easily receives / The featur'd stamp that cross-ey'd cunning gives"
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Date: w. 1787, 1797
"They only who are curst with breasts of steel / Can mock the foibles of surviving love"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1797
The gently-murmuring tide may reflect each reflection kind and be "A faithful mirror of the mind"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1797
"Their [young persons'] minds are like a sheet of white paper, which takes any impression that it is proposed to make upon it."
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