Date: 1826
"Seen many a Comrade droop, & strove to steel / His heart, but still the Woes of War could fee / With Other Woes."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1826
"Now, with submission to my betters, I have another way, sir; I'll drive my tyrant from my heart, and place myself on her throne."
preview | full record— King, Thomas (1730-1805)
Date: 1826
One may be "lord of [his] own tenement, and keep [his] household in order"
preview | full record— King, Thomas (1730-1805)
Date: 1826
A woman's "reason [may be] ship-wrecked upon her passion, and the hulk of her understanding lies thumping against the rock of her fury"
preview | full record— King, Thomas (1730-1805)
Date: March, 1826
"And both these effects are of equal use to human life; for the mind of man is like the sea, which is neither agreeable to the beholder nor the voyager, in a calm or in a storm, but is so to both when a little agitated by gentle gales; and so the mind, when moved by soft and easy passions or affe...
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: 1827
"I feel a joy, / Dear to my heart, and mixed with no alloy."
preview | full record— Gifford, William (1756-1826)
Date: January 9, 1827
"Lady Stanmore will never know the value of domestic happiness till she has lost it: she will then find that female domination is wretched slavery; and that the silken tie--the silver links that chain the heart of woman to a worthy husband, is her noblest ornament--her crown of triumph."
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)
Date: w. 1775, 1827
"For thou, within the human Mind / Fix'd, as on thy peculiar throne, / Sitt'st like a Deity inshrined; / And either Muse is all thine own!"
preview | full record— Crowe, William (1745-1829)
Date: 1829
"Death is only the removal of an immortal soul from dead matter, which many have considered merely as a clog to the soul."
preview | full record— Balfour, Walter (1776-1852)
Date: 1829
"And if the man is as complete without the body, as he is without the house he resides in, the immortal soul ought to be thankful when it gets quit of the body."
preview | full record— Balfour, Walter (1776-1852)