Date: w. 1766, 1797
" His youth, his comeliness, his country too, / Will stamp him very Curan in her heart"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1798
One's band may "all want the stamp of a genuine great mind."
preview | full record— Render, William (fl. 1790-1801); August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"From birth, from talents, and those matchless arts / That stamp one man the ruler of men's hearts."
preview | full record— Craven, Keppel (1779-1851); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1799
"Ah, you lucky dog! you have an estate in every corner of your brain, and a pretty income at the end of every finger."
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1799
"Ignorance has set her stamp upon him--his mind seared to every virtuous impression--his heart flint, and his temper moved by the slightest breath"
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1800
"[I]f miseries pressed on thy brain too great for reason to support, would tend thee in the cell of madness, and even there derive more ecstasy from one kind look given in the transient intervals of sense, than all the unruffled pleasures that the world without thee can afford"
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1800
"The inner world, his microcosmus, is / The deep shaft, out of which they spring eternally."
preview | full record— Schiller, Friedrich (1759-1805)