Date: 1810

"Friends, parents, relatives, hope, reason, love," may "With anxious ardour for that empire strove"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1810

"Our heroine fear'd him not; it was her part, / To make sure conquest of such gentle heart"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1810

"Love never made impression on her mind."

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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

"'All this experience tells the Soul, and yet / 'These moral men their pence and farthings set / 'Against the terrors of the countless Debt"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1810

"In his mind's eye his house and glebe he sees, / And farms and talks with farmers at his ease;"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1810

"Years pass away--let us suppose them past, / Th' accomplish'd nymph for freedom looks at last; / All hardships over, which a school contains, / The spirit's bondage and the body's pains; / Where teachers make the heartless, trembling set / Of pupils suffer for their own regret."

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1812

"[R]eviving joy and lingering gloom" may "Alternate empire o'er [the] soul assume."

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1812

Something may reach one "of the social arts, / That soften manners, and that conquer hearts."

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1812

"On Captain Bligh her mind in balance hung-- / Though valiant, modest; and reserved, though young/ Against these merits must defects be set-- / Though poor, imprudent; and though proud, in debt"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)