Date: 1790
A better soul "by revolution strange" may come to sit on her throne
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
"O lovely queen, / Beauty usurps the empire of my heart, / All its affections."
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Date: 1790
"[M]y conquer'd heart / 'Has nothing noble or aspiring in it"
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Date: 1790
"'Who foils a Persian? Are they not all flint, / 'All steel and iron to the very heart?"
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Date: 1790
"'The hero's heart is neither steel nor flint"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
"For what heart, / Not made of steel, could look on such a scene, / Three armies deep and strong, with countless horse, / Chariots untold, innumerable foot"
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Date: 1791
"The generous Mind expanding into Joy, / While no mean Passion mixt its base Alloy;"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1791
"Hail to each ancient sacred shade / Of those, who gave the Muses aid, / Skill'd verse mysterious to unfold, / And set each brilliant thought in gold."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: w. 1780, 1792
"Blest be the tribute of those tears, that start / From Friendship's eye, the mirrors of the heart."
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Date: 1792
"Much hist'ry in those tell-tale orbs we read! / What though no bigger than a button hole, / Yet what a wondrous window to the soul!"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)