Date: 1780, 1781, 1788
"Two passions there by soft contention please, / The love of martial Fame, and learned Ease: / These friendly colours, exquisitely join'd, / Form the enchanting picture of thy mind."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1780
"Thy mind expanded to her empire's bound; / There every Science a firm station found."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1780
"But O! how rare benignant Virtue springs / In the blank bosom of despotic kings!"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1777, 1780
"He made but little reply; but the impression sunk deep into his rancorous heart; every word in Edmund's behalf was like a poisoned arrow that rankled in the wound, and grew every day more inflamed."
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: 1777, 1780
"While he prayed, he felt an enlargement of heart beyond what he had ever experienced before; all idle fears were dispersed, and his heart glowed with divine love and affiance: He seemed raised above the world and all its pursuits."
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: 1777, 1780
"I buried my resentment deep in my heart, and outwardly appeared to rejoice at his success; I made a merit of resigning my pretensions to him, but I could not bear to be present at his nuptials."
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: 1777, 1780
"He asked an audience of his fair Mistress, and was permitted to declare the passion he had so long stifled in his own bosom."
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: 1780
"My Potter stamp on me thy clay, Thy only stamp of love!"
preview | full record— Wesley, John (1703-1791)
Date: 1781
"[A]ll you've said / Seems to wear Reason's stamp."
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: 1781, 1791
"Could I thus stamp with guilt, sensations sprung / From thought most delicate"?
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)