Date: 1813
Country's love may be a ruling passion
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1813
"No, my generous friend, the Admiral's heart is gold, and I might coin it"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1813
"Oh pure in heart, I have touch'd and find thee true as gold without alloy"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1813
"Fear nothing, then, for on that side your heart lies, and steel will not cut steel; no sword can pierce it, impenetrable Diabolo"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: November 12, 1816
"But what land, that poet ever sung, or enchanter swayed, can equal that, which, when the slave's foot touches, he becomes free--his prisoned soul starts forth, his swelling nerves burst the chain that enthrall'd him, and, in his own strength he stands, as the rock he treads on, majestic and secu...
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)
Date: 1817
"If I could rip up my heart and lay it at your feet, you would read engrav'd on it in capital letters your own adorable name"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1819
"Writing! O, I should have written thousands of pamphlets by this time, if it wasn't that--that the first sentence is so damn'd hard to get over; but, unluckily, I have such a profusion of ideas, that, when I sit down to write, there is so much crowding and jostling among them, that, curse me, yo...
preview | full record— Poole, John (1786-1872)
Date: 1820
"Good bye, I wish you a wiser master--a jailor' heart should be like you--iron."
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)
Date: 1820
"Thus a number of writers possess the form, whilst they want the spirit of those whom, it is alleged, they imitate; because the former is the endowment of the age in which they live, and the latter must be the uncommunicated lightning of their own mind."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1820
"The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning, and the equilibrium between institutions and opinions is now restoring or is about to be restored."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)