Date: January 13, 1796
"Come then, sweet sounds, for you alone / Can bid the tumult cease, / Restore reason to it's throne / His bosom to it's peace."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1798
Virtue may slumber "and vice for a moment usurped her throne in [one's] heart" but she may awake again, "and with a look abashed and banished the usurper for ever"
preview | full record— Papendick, George (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798
A king may "Cherish the ripening mind of [his] vast empire"
preview | full record— Noehden, Georg Heinrich (1770-1826) and John Stoddart (1773-1856)
Date: 1798
One may be "banished ... not only from [another's] heart, but from all share of empire"
preview | full record— Noehden, Georg Heinrich (1770-1826) and John Stoddart (1773-1856)
Date: 1798
The heart of another may be one's judge
preview | full record— Porter, Stephen (1781-1868); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"The judge of our court of conscience is the noblest soul I ever knew"
preview | full record— Ludger, Conrad (b. 1748)
Date: 1799
The Sophist boasts in vain that he can "Disprove [Nature's] general empire o'er the heart"
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"Yes--they will give enlightened freedom to our minds, who are themselves the slaves of passion, avarice, and pride."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"The heart and the mind are prejudiced judges, ever at war with consistency and truth; they recoil with indignation from the smallest speck on another's conduct, yet pass with exultation over the mountain that darkens their own"
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"Thou enviest the sovereignty Pizarro holds over my heart; but be assured, you never shall reign there."
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)