Date: 1798

"And, sir, it may be prudent for you to remember, that a soldier's heart is like his sword, formed of tempered steel; for while it bends with sympathizing pity to the touch of woe, it can resume its springing energy to punish arrogance, or crush oppression"

— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)

Date: 1798

"There are occupations in the world, which mould a man into a certain form for life, like a piece of paper which has once been folded, its marks are never obliterated."

— Render, William (fl. 1790-1801); August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (1761-1819)

Date: 1798

"The countenance, to attract the heart of a worthy man, must be the mirror of an unsullied mind."

— Papendick, George (fl. 1798)

Date: 1798

"In her it [beauty] seems the mirror of her soul"

— Papendick, George (fl. 1798)

Date: 1798

"Is the face of a friend become disgusting to you? or dare you not let your eye be the mirror of your soul?"

— Papendick, George (fl. 1798)

Date: 1798

"Methinks, its [a fluttering "film"] motion in this hush of nature / Gives it dim sympathies with me who live, / Making it a companionable form, / Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling Spirit / By its own moods interprets, every where / Echo or mirror seeking of itself, / And makes a toy of Thou...

— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)

Date: 1798

"So, mighty Burke! in thy sepulchral urn, / To fancy's view, the lamp of Truth shall burn"

— Canning, George (1770-1827)

Date: 1798

"To the heart which love inhabits, fear is a stranger and vice a cast-off menial."

— Render, William (fl. 1790-1801); August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (1761-1819)

Date: 1798

"O reader! had you in your mind / Such stores as silent thought can bring."

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: w. 1789, 1798, 1800

"Oh glide, fair stream! for ever so; / Thy quiet soul on all bestowing, / 'Till all our minds for ever flow, / As thy deep waters now are flowing"

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)