Date: 1769
One may banish from her heart a hopeless passion
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1770
"This Night we'd fix her [the Muse of Comedy's] Empire in your Hearts."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1770
Powerful charms may extend "their empire over the heart"
preview | full record— Foote, Samuel (1720-1777)
Date: 1770
"Reason and Nature are the judges here."
preview | full record— Foote, Samuel (1720-1777)
Date: 1771
"But, Sir, my passions are my masters; they take me where they will; and oftentimes they leave to reason and to virtue nothing but my wishes and my sighs."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1771
"I conjure you--however severe the conflict, gratitude shall ever be the predominant passion of my soul--oh! fly this instant."
preview | full record— Stevens, George Alexander (1710?-1784)
Date: 1771
"And, like my friend, a gen'rous aim pursues: / To combat vice in this licentious age, / To teach the pleasing moral from the stage, / The rising gusts of passion to controul"
preview | full record— Stevens, George Alexander (1710?-1784)
Date: 1772
One may weed out unmanly prejudice from the hearts of his countrymen
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1772
"Oh! if my fate depends upon her looks, they must be iron hearts that can withstand 'em."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1773
"Fancy no more on airy wings shall rise, / We now must scold the maids, and make the pies."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)