Date: 1785
"While in high life our hearts the fashions steel, / Too gay to listen, and too fine to feel--"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1786
Uncouth men may have "minds like rich metals, as yet unpurify'd from alloy; but let it once be known that the ore is gold, and the refiner's hand will soon bring forth the bullion"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: First performed August 4, 1787
"Ill founded precept too long has steel'd my breast--but still 'tis vulnerable-- this trial was too muc"
preview | full record— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)
Date: 1788
"True love purifies the soul from every base alloy."
preview | full record— Cobb, James (1756-1818)
Date: 1788
"O yes, this is his valet that Lady Jane mentioned, this is her O'Donovan and my Aircourt, but my heart is steel'd against him"
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)