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

"And, indeed, so long as chivalry lasted, the minstrels were protected and caressed, because their music tended to do honour to the ruling passion of the times, and to encourage and foment a martial spirit."

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

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)