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"

— 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."

— 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"

— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)

Date: 1810

"Hence are his senses to his reason subject."

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1810

"Fear was his ruling passion; yet was Love, / Of timid kind, once known his heart to move."

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1810

"Think that you hear them plead from Reason's throne!"

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Date: 1810

"Friends, parents, relatives, hope, reason, love," may "With anxious ardour for that empire strove"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1810

"Your gentle souls are in your myrtle seen; / It's blossoms candid, and benign it's green"

— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)

Date: 1810

"Our heroine fear'd him not; it was her part, / To make sure conquest of such gentle heart"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1810

"As pliant hands in shapes refin'd / Rich iv'ry carve and smooth, / His laws thus mould each ductile mind, / And ev'ry passion soothe"

— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)