Date: w. 1764, published 1820
"O Peace of mind, thou lovely guest, / Thou softest soother of the breast, / Dispense thy balmy store."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: w. 1764, published 1820
"Yet, why repine? What, though by bonds confined, / Should bonds enslave the vigour of the mind?"
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: December 6, 1765
One may fell Love's vengeful Shaft transfix her heart "And yield to [it] the Empire of [her] Soul]
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: December 6, 1765
"Then fly from Shape to Shape, / Yet hope not to escape, / My Chains enclose your Heart."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1766
"My Heart is my own / And a Stranger to Care"
preview | full record— Carey, George Saville (1743-1807)
Date: 1767
"She hath buried my heart in sorrow, and engraven dishonour on the tomb of her ancestors"
preview | full record— Hull, Thomas (1728-1808); Tuke, Sir Samuel (d. 1624)
Date: 1767
"Seamen have hearts of gold, sir, / Peace or in war, alike we show / Englishmen stout and bold, sir."
preview | full record— Stevens, George Alexander (1710?-1784)
Date: 1767
"We were free, we're bold, we're true hearts of gold"
preview | full record— Stevens, George Alexander (1710?-1784)
Date: 1767
"Love has made me stout and strong; /Has given me a charm, / Will not suffer me to fall; / Has steel'd my heart, and nerv'd my arm, / To guard my precious all."
preview | full record— Garrick, David (1717-1779)
Date: 1767
"[I]ndeed, in her more serious moments, which are but few, she, perhaps, gives me an hearing, when all at once a crowd of gayer thoughts rush on, and kill at once the hopes wherewith I was elated a few minutes before"
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)