Date: 1808
"The Soul awakes; and, wond'ring, sees / In her mild Hand the golden Key."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1808
Love of native soil is a ruling passion that may intervene in restless scenes
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1808
"Judge not the Man by his exterior part: / Virtue's strong root in every soil will grow, / Rich ores lie buried under piles of snow"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1808
"Let us awhile divert our spleen, / Recall the gay, the cheerful scene; /Awhile in Fancy's mirror trace / The social night, the joyous chase"
preview | full record— Anstey, Christopher (1724-1805)
Date: 1809
"Still may she [Fancy] rule the manly mind; / Her sweetest magic still impart / To soften, not subdue, the heart: / Still may she warm the chosen breast, /Not as the sovereign, but the guest."
preview | full record— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)
Date: 1809
"Manhood, Shame, / And sense of Folly--all conspire, / To steel their Hearts, and rouse their Fire, / And vindicate their Honour's claim"
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)
Date: 1810
"Hence are his senses to his reason subject."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1810
"Fear was his ruling passion; yet was Love, / Of timid kind, once known his heart to move."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1810
"Think that you hear them plead from Reason's throne!"
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1810
"Friends, parents, relatives, hope, reason, love," may "With anxious ardour for that empire strove"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)