Date: 1804, 1816
"Of ink has for ever a flood, / To blacken a bosom of snow!"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
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."
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1806
One may possess a great deal of spirit and "sterling merit"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: October 1807
"A soul [may be] defiled with every stain / That man's reflecting mind can pain."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: October 1807
Pride, wrong, rage, despair, can make may nearly touch the brain, "And reason on her throne would shake"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1807
"Yes, 't is too late,--now Reason guides / The mind, sole judge in all debate."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1807
"Tyrants have wept; and those with hearts of steel, / Unused the anguish of the heart to heal"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1808
"Let us awhile divert our spleen, / Recall the gay, the cheerful scene; /Awhile in Fancy's mirror trace / The social night, the joyous chase"
preview | full record— Anstey, Christopher (1724-1805)
Date: 1809
"Could my ideas flow as fast as the rain in the store-closet it would be charming."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1810
"Fear was his ruling passion; yet was Love, / Of timid kind, once known his heart to move."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)