Date: 1803

"Yet laws there are, whose power each being feels, Impress'd on every heart with Nature's seals."

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

Date: 1804

The mind may be kept upon her throne "in duty firm and sage"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

Date: 1804

"For thou, within the human Mind / Fix'd, as on thy peculiar throne, / Sitt'st like a Deity inshrined."

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

Date: 1804

The Lord may establish himself in "The heart [his] real throne"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

Date: 1804

"The tender fair, whose heart is pity's throne, / With ease forgives all errors, but her own"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

Date: 1804

The "tender, feeling heart" is "Compassion's throne"

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

Date: 1804

The nine [muses] may "vindicate [sensibility's] empire o'er the mind"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

Date: 1804

"[L]ove-darting Eyes" may show "How many hearts their empire own"

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

Date: 1804

One may part "Ere love had held long empire in his heart"

— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)

Date: 1805

"Alas! when ev'ry Muse is fled, / How wretched He who writes for bread! / Who, when the joyous years are flown, / And Reason totters on her throne, / And Fancy fails, and Nature tires, / And Fame herself no more inspires, / And ev'n the sweet return of Spring / No more can make the Poet sing, / T...

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