Date: 1781
"Oh, I begin to take you--your days--the rusticated remains of a ruined Temple Critic--a smatterer of high life from the scenes of Cibber, which remain upon his imagination, as they do upon the stage, forty years after the real characters are lost"
preview | full record— Burgoyne, John (1722-1792)
Date: February 24, 1777; 1781
"She is the deceitful sorceress who now holds your husband's heart in bondage."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1782
"Have you shewn a jewel / Out of the cabinet of your rich mind / To lock it up again?"
preview | full record— Dudley, Sir Henry Bate (1745-1824)
Date: 1784
"No, Edwitha--you have a native dignity of mind incapable of degradation or alloy."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Date: 1784
" I am form'd horribly robust, as thou art, without a grain of sensibility--a heart of stone, and nerves of cast iron"
preview | full record— Andrews, Miles Peter (1742-1814)
Date: 1784
"Pistols prim'd and carbines loaded, / Courage strikes on hearts of steel"
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1784
"Oh! spare me, Julia--look on me as I am, an alter'd man--peace has been a stranger to my bosom, and remorse and sorrow my constant companions, since we parted"
preview | full record— Andrews, Miles Peter (1742-1814)
Date: 1785
Play [gambling] may be a ruling passion
preview | full record— MacNally, Leonard (1752-1820)
Date: 1785
In the "scales of suspense" two fancies may be hung
preview | full record— MacNally, Leonard (1752-1820)
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)