Date: 1785
The gay juice may "unlock the secret soul"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1797
"Beware of acquiescing in the evil tempers which have been condemned, under the idea that they are the ordinary imperfections of the best of men; that they shew themselves only in little instances; that they are only occasional, hasty, and transient effusions, when you are taken off your guard; t...
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Date: 1801
The heart may bear a "fair image"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
Heaven "Braces each nerve, and stamps with energy his soul"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
"Stampt on my soul, and with my life combin'd, / Is the remembrance of my much-lov'd King"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1807-8
"Thus with the show of reason, but with hearts, / By faction tainted, and by envy steel'd / Against their youthful leader, they had hop'd / By these inglorious councils to degrade / And tarnish his high fame."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1807-8
"Since, then, th' Eternal Pow'r has stamp'd each mind, / Pure and congenial, in one common mould"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1807-8
"Oh! had [Heaven] stamp'd upon the human mind / The mild forbearance, and the love unfeign'd"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1807-8
"So minds debas'd can torture gen'rous acts: / And thus, by terrors haunted, hunger-pinch'd, / Hag-ridden by the demon at their hearts, / Suspicious, tost from thought to thought, they watch'd / The lagging hours of night"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1816
"This was love's doing: from my constant heart / The image stampt by him can ne'er depart"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)