Date: 1804

The "tender, feeling heart" is "Compassion's throne"

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

Date: 1804

The nine [muses] may "vindicate [sensibility's] empire o'er the mind"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

Date: 1804

"[L]ove-darting Eyes" may show "How many hearts their empire own"

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

Date: 1805

"Alas! when ev'ry Muse is fled, / How wretched He who writes for bread! / Who, when the joyous years are flown, / And Reason totters on her throne, / And Fancy fails, and Nature tires, / And Fame herself no more inspires, / And ev'n the sweet return of Spring / No more can make the Poet sing, / T...

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Date: 1805

One may have a heart that is "the throne of every charity which adorns humanity, and of every aspiration that ascends to God."

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Date: 1807-8

"Let them approach: / Myriads of slaves like these appal not me, / Who in my people's hearts have built my throne, / Strong as their courage, stedfast as their truth."

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

Date: 1810

"Fear was his ruling passion; yet was Love, / Of timid kind, once known his heart to move."

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1810

"Think that you hear them plead from Reason's throne!"

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Date: 1810

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

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1810

"Kindness can woo the Lion from his den, / A moral teaching to the sons of men; / His mighty heart in silken bonds can draw, / And bend his nature to sweet Pity's law."

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)