Date: 1778
"O love, thou dear sweet tyrant of the soul, / Where you possess you must engross the whole."
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Date: 1778
"Do you think the public opinion, his various doubts of himself, and of her, the pride of his family, and the loud claims of avarice, his ruling passion 'till now, won't prove near an equipoise to his love?"
preview | full record— Foote, Samuel (1720-1777)
Date: 1778
"As to my Fanny and myself, our souls had been created, like sympathetic steel and magnet, to leap together at first sight!"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1780
"Pull away, my lads, pull away; that's my hearts of gold, pull away"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1780
"Then bravely on, my hearts of steel, / The haughty foe is vap'ring;"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1780
"I must steel my heart against the allurements of friendship and of pleasure"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1780
"Generous Britain scorns to bind, / In servile chains, the freeborn mind."
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1780
"Once love gets into a man's head, poor reason is brought before a court-martial of the passions, and cashiered without a hearing"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1781
"But what will then fill up the blank of this my heart?"
preview | full record— Raspe, Rudolph Eric (1737-1794); Lessing, G. E. (1729-1781)
Date: 1781
Cold books "stamp but dead impressions on the mind"
preview | full record— Raspe, Rudolph Eric (1737-1794); Lessing, G. E. (1729-1781)