Date: 1785
"While in high life our hearts the fashions steel, / Too gay to listen, and too fine to feel--"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1785
"I was surpriz'd, taken unawares, passion ran away with me like an unbroke horse: but I have got him under now; I can govern him with a twine of thread."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: February 17, 1786
"The bonds of Hymen o'er my mind, / My constant soul must ever bind."
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1786
Love of admiration may be a ruling passion
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1786
Uncouth men may have "minds like rich metals, as yet unpurify'd from alloy; but let it once be known that the ore is gold, and the refiner's hand will soon bring forth the bullion"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1787
"It is enough--my scruples are at an end--my prejudices, like clouds before the rising sun, vanish before the lights of your superior reason."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1787
"Quick, you iron-souled scoundrels! Don't you know he is in distress?"
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809); Shakespeare
Date: First performed August 4, 1787
"Ill founded precept too long has steel'd my breast--but still 'tis vulnerable-- this trial was too muc"
preview | full record— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)