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"
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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"
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Date: 1813
"O Spirit! through the sense / By which thy inner nature was apprised / Of outward shows, vague dreams have rolled, / And varied reminiscences have waked / Tablets that never fade."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1813
"The Mind, that broods o’er guilty woes / Is like the Scorpion girt by fire"
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: November 10, 1813
"I by no means rank poetry or poets high in the scale of intellect. This may look like affectation, but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruptions prevents an earthquake."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1814
"Give me to send the laughing bowl around, / My soul in Bacchus' pleasing fetters bound."
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)