Date: 1799
"E'en orcs and river-dragons felt / Their iron bosoms melt / With scorching heat"
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
Date: 1799
"'Th' woes imagination broaches / 'Drive through my brain like mourning coaches."
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1799
"A head of wax should never court the sun."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1799
"Mock as you will, I cannot, like you, steel my heart against the common feelings of humanity"
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1799
"Ah, you lucky dog! you have an estate in every corner of your brain, and a pretty income at the end of every finger."
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: w. 1779, published 1800
"His iron-heart with Scripture he assail'd, / Woo'd him to hear a sermon, and prevail'd."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: w. 1779, published 1800
"Now strike me to the ground, on which I kneel, / Ere yet this heart relapses into steel;"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1800
"Teach thou my hand, with mutual love, to trace / His mind, as perfect as thy lines his face!"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1800
"Thee, rich Herodes! Honour has enroll'd / For elegance of mind that match'd thy gold:"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1800
"Steel were the heart / That could this passing spectacle survey, / Nor feel the touch of sympathy within."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)