Date: 1763
I shall bury in Oblivion all Thoughts of the Intent,
preview | full record— King, Thomas (1730-1805)
Date: 1778
If we may judge the inside of fashionable ladies' heads "by that without, they are confused enough of all conscience"
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Date: 1778
The heart like a bird to its nestling will fly, / And when by the weight of a parent its bending, / Yet wishes while constant to break and to die. / Like a bird in a snare, of its freedom bereft, / Still hoping and wishing releasement again, / 'Till clos'd in the cage the flutterer is left / To p...
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Date: 1788
"I own that my heart yields like wax to the impression of the little god"
preview | full record— Cobb, James (1756-1818)
Date: 1788
A heart of wax may be "soon hot and soon cold, and yields to a different impression every day"
preview | full record— Cobb, James (1756-1818)
Date: 1789, 1797
"Ah, say, deluded Maid, / Would you, whose mind is pure as winter's snow, / Assort with one distain'd by foulest guilt, / Whose nightly rest the murther'd sprites would break."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George Monck (1763-1793)