Date: 1775
A new light may break in upon someone
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
"[B]e assured I throw the original from my heart as easily!"
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
"That heart, by war and honour steel'd to fear, / Droops on a sigh, and sickens at a tear!"
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
"But, O, my brother! if thou hast a heart / That is not steel'd with stoic apathy / Against the magic of all-conqu'ring love, / Beware of beauty's pow'r; for she has charms / Wou'd melt the frozen breast of hoary age, / Or draw the lonely hermit from his cell / To gaze upon her."
preview | full record— Francklin, Thomas (1721-1784)
Date: 1776
"Oh! jealousy, / Thou tyrant of the mind."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
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: 1777
"Her mind's a burning fire, / Where sudden thoughts, like wreaths of smoak arise, / And, parting from the flame, disperse in air."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: 1777
"Her shatter'd fancy, like a mirror broken, / Reflects no single image just and true, / But many false ones."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: 1778
"I must first see what state my troops are in.--Go you, Drill, and bring 'em before us--here they come! here they come--come on my hearts of gold"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1778
Stocks and mercury may stand "All on the elevation, madam, as if they kept time with my passion."
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)