Date: 1794
"I would not shackle you with fetters of suspicion; I would have you governed by justice and reason."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1795
One may have "The throne of Virtue in [his] steadfast heart"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: w. 1795
We may "exert over our own heart a virtuous despotism, and lead our own Passions in triumph"
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: April 17, 1795
"Like Britain's Monarch" an audience may "act [their] generous parts, /And fix [their] empire, in [actors] greatful hearts.
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1796
"[T]here is a Judge to whose all-seeing eye our inmost thoughts lie open"
preview | full record— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)
Date: 1796
"I taught this breast, / Which Truth once made her throne, to forge a lie; / This tongue to utter it"
preview | full record— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)
Date: w. 1788-93, 1796 (rev. 1815, 1827, 1837, 1897)
"The dissipation of Blandford, and the disputes of Portsmouth, consumed the hours which were not employed in the field; and amid the perpetual hurry of an inn, a barrack, or a guard-room, all literary ideas were banished from my mind."
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Date: w. 1788-93, 1796 (rev. 1815, 1827, 1837, 1897)
"But Nature had designed him to think as he pleased, and to speak as he thought: his piety was offended by the excessive worship of creatures; and the study of physics convinced him of the impossibility of transubstantiation, which is abundantly refuted by the testimony of our senses."
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Date: 1796
"The trial is dangerous; he is just at that period of life when the passions are most vigorous, unbridled, and despotic."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"He closed his eyes, but strove in vain to banish her from his thoughts."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)