Date: 1838
"The Captain's heart, although unused to melt, / A strong impression from persuasion felt;"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1838
"Hard was his heart; but yet a heart of steel / May melt in dying, and dissolving feel."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1838
"I to the ocean gave / My mind, and thoughts as restless as the wave"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1842
Rash, angry words may be "spoken out of season / When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason"
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: 1839-1842
"My heart within / Melts as the wax."
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: 1842
"For a shrewd intellect, the best employ / Is to detect a soul of base alloy;"
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: 1842
None "can I find / No sterling unadulterated mind; / None that abides the crucible like mine"
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: 1842
"The images of past delight / Have fleeted from her troubled sight, / And left no perfect form behind / On the dim mirror of the mind"
preview | full record— Herbert, William (1778-1847)
Date: 1872
"No! the celestial Author and Creator / In those two volumes of the Book of Nature / Ordained for our instruction, represents, / By multiform but single elements, / One universe of sense, all that we know, / The visible world of instantaneous show / And tangible creation, hard and slow,The last r...
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: 1903
"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds may take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of the brimming mind."
preview | full record— Wickham, E. C. (1834-1910); Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] (65 BC - 8 BC)