Date: 1792
"For oft, their due degrees / Abandon'd, one essential ev'n excludes / The rest; or argument, perhaps, usurps / The throne of pathos; or the passions, free / From previous forms, as great emergence calls, / Burst on a CATILINE's devoted head / Impetuous."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
"Around [Religion's] emerald throne / The passions tremble at her awful beck-- ' Her ministers as flaming fire,' to waft / Into the mortal bosom the pure spark / Æthereal, that refines our thought"
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Date: 1793
"Strike the flint of his heart on the steel / Of freedom"
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1797
The gently-murmuring tide may reflect each reflection kind and be "A faithful mirror of the mind"
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Date: 1799
Events "'Together ta'en--they on my mind / 'No good impression leave behind."
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1799
"'Th' woes imagination broaches / 'Drive through my brain like mourning coaches."
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
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)
Date: 1800
"Piece of the nether millstone is his heart / Who marks ill-pleas'd the frolic of the child, / Or views the rural festival unmov'd."
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