Date: 1792
"Had not a persecuting spirit steel'd / Their breasts to momentary pardon prone."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
"For oft, their due degrees / Abandon'd, one essential ev'n excludes / The rest; or argument, perhaps, usurps / The throne of pathos; or the passions, free / From previous forms, as great emergence calls, / Burst on a CATILINE's devoted head / Impetuous."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
"Around [Religion's] emerald throne / The passions tremble at her awful beck-- ' Her ministers as flaming fire,' to waft / Into the mortal bosom the pure spark / Æthereal, that refines our thought"
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Date: 1801
A lover's heart may be one's throne
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1804
"For thou, within the human Mind / Fix'd, as on thy peculiar throne, / Sitt'st like a Deity inshrined."
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Date: 1804
The "tender, feeling heart" is "Compassion's throne"
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Date: 1804
"[L]ove-darting Eyes" may show "How many hearts their empire own"
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Date: 1805
"There, as those cells [Satan's myrmidons] empty found / Where brains in wiser pates abound, / They fill'd them with mephitic gas / From hell, which downward strove to pass, / But, gaining exit through the throat, / By leave of porter, Epiglott, / Vented itself in fustian storm / Rhetorical."
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Date: 1810
"And yet, my heart, within thy silent cell / Dwells a fair image which is lovelier still."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)