Date: 1795, 1796
"But, hear, Louisa--a thought, just now, vast and immense as my own boundless passion, crowds on my troubled mind."
preview | full record— Timaeus, J. J. (1763-1809); Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1795
"How many hearts have you this moment in your chains?"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: April 17, 1795
"Like Britain's Monarch" an audience may "act [their] generous parts, /And fix [their] empire, in [actors] greatful hearts.
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: April 17, 1795
"At Hymen's altar claim the chain / That twines two willing hearts in one!"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1796
"[T]here is a Judge to whose all-seeing eye our inmost thoughts lie open"
preview | full record— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)
Date: 1796
"Ay: ay: this is none of your modern paper skull'd authors--old Geoffery's head is sound"
preview | full record— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841)
Date: 1796
"A plague on stoicks! / I cannot hoop my heart about with iron, / Like an old beer-butt"
preview | full record— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)
Date: 1796
The actor " Miss Farren, too, who might animate any thing but a soul of lead, and a face of iron, experienced the same fate" (the fate of being paired with a dull actor)
preview | full record— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)
Date: 1796
"You steel mens' hearts against you!"
preview | full record— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)
Date: 1796
"Does not the hope of that fill our universities with blockheads--and cram our courts full of barristers, with heads as empty as they leave their clients' pockets?"
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)