Date: 1760, 1803
"To farther conquests still my soul aspires, / And all my bosom glows with martial fires"
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1761
"While Frugi liv'd / Thy sorrows kept possession of my heart, / And Love receded from the stronger guest; / Now his dear image rises to my view / So piteously array'd, with such a train / Of tender thoughts assails this shatter'd frame, / That Reason quits her fort, and flies before, / To the las...
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1761
"Why then I thank thee, Nature, / That when you made this frame of such frail stuff, / So sensible of harm, so ill array'd / To combat sharp Misfortune, yet you cas'd / My Heart in temper'd steel, and made it proof / Against the soft compunctious stroke of Pity, / Bidding it laugh at all that Fat...
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1785
"To Younge, where the smile-stealing comic we find, / With the soft, the sublime, and the graceful combin'd. / To Younge who can each diff'rent passion impart, / Who pleases the judgement, but conquers the heart, / And guided by Nature, is followed by Art."
preview | full record— MacNally, Leonard (1752-1820)
Date: 1797
A boy with the the divine gift of beauty may conquer "each heart he lists" nor needs Cupid's "shafts to aid his victories"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1799
"Their eyes are water! their hearts are brass! Kisses upon their lips! daggers in their hearts!"
preview | full record— Render, William (fl. 1790-1801); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1799
"The heart and the mind are prejudiced judges, ever at war with consistency and truth; they recoil with indignation from the smallest speck on another's conduct, yet pass with exultation over the mountain that darkens their own"
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1800
"Your power I dare / In despite of these chains, / Unconquered still my soul remains."
preview | full record— Cobb, James (1756-1818)