Date: 1810

"As gems are taught by patient art / In sparkling ranks to beam, / With manners thus he forms the heart, / And spreads a gen'ral gleam"

— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)

Date: 1810

"Love never made impression on her mind."

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1810

"My mind's impressions met my listening ear; / And Echo said,--"The God of Pope is here."

— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)

Date: 1810

"When ambition and wealth their allurements unite, / What heart can resist their attractive impression?"

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

Date: 1810

"And these young ruffians in the soul will sow / Seeds of all vices that on weakness grow."

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1810

The poor live "'midst luxury, wanting daily bread: / While hard unfeeling instruments of state, / With iron bosoms aggravate their fate"

— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)

Date: 1810

"The fiend, consistent, who had steeled all hearts / Against their feeling for ingenuous arts,"

— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)

Date: 1810

"But I thank the hard steel that environs my heart; / The steel that has grown, by salabrious time, / Who corrects the wild ardour of love, and of rhyme:"

— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)

Date: 1810

"Though shields of gold protect their hearts of steel: / In rags, his best, his noblest friend, can see / If virtue warms his heart, and keeps him free."

— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)

Date: 1810

"And yet, my heart, within thy silent cell / Dwells a fair image which is lovelier still."

— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)