Date: 1724
"Ha!--what a shoot was there!--my blood boils in me! / Flames wind about my breast--my brain burns red, / And my eyes swim in a blue sea of sulphur!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1724
"What a slave is man, when passion masters him?"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1739
"Faint is the lesson reason's rules impart: / [Drama] pours it strong and instant through the heart"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
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: 1777
"Pale-eyed Affright, his heart of silver hue, / In vain essayed her bosom to acale."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1792
"We from your judgment to your hearts appeal, / Generous as brave, you are not hearts of steel"
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1792
"That sweet enchantress ... Can give to Fancy's work a blaze more bright, / Or Reason's steady lamp feed with new light."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1800
"Know, that the human being's thoughts and deeds / Are not like ocean billows, blindly moved."
preview | full record— Schiller, Friedrich (1759-1805)
Date: 1800
"The inner world, his microcosmus, is / The deep shaft, out of which they spring eternally."
preview | full record— Schiller, Friedrich (1759-1805)
Date: 1800
"They grow by certain laws, like the tree's fruit-- / No juggling chance can metamorphose them. / Have I the human kernel first examined? / Then I know, too, the future will and action."
preview | full record— Schiller, Friedrich (1759-1805)