Date: 1793
"Silent, for ever cold!--Renew, renew / Thy plaint, that well might rend a heart of steel!"
preview | full record— Kendall, William (1768-1832)
Date: 1793
"To paint th' ecstatic tumult of their souls, / The rapture of deliverance from death / Thus threatenting, and the mutual joys of safety, / Description aims not, for too weak her power, / Too faint her colours: diffident she points / To fancy's faithful mirror, and then drops / Her useless pencil."
preview | full record— Kett, Henry (1761-1825)
Date: 1793
"Alas the sex you little know, / Their ruling passion is a Beau."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1794
"This Magnet, spite of nature's laws, / Still as more distant stronger draws, / And what's more strange, (too well I feel!) / Attracts all hearts but hearts of steel"
preview | full record— Graham, James (1765-1811)
Date: 1794
"'What numerous ills in life befall! / 'Yet Wisdom learns to scorn them all, / 'And arms the breast with steel"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1794
" And now these Dæmons of the captive mind / Him to the drery Cave of Discontent resignd"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1794
The mists of faction may pour around one's head
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1795
France "spurning base controul ... pluck'd the iron from her wounded soul [and] O'erthrew her proud Bastile, as with a charm"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1795
"Disdaining even the thought of flight or fear, / His life, his soul, by steady valor steel'd."
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1796
"These upheld the soul, / As ribb'd with triple steel"
preview | full record— Bruce, Michael (1746-1767)