Date: 1813
British nymphs even while "their bosoms own the tender fire, / Their generous minds can check each fond desire"
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Date: 1813
One passion governs every gallant mind
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Date: 1813
Country's love may be a ruling passion
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Date: 1813
"No, my generous friend, the Admiral's heart is gold, and I might coin it"
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Date: 1813
"Oh pure in heart, I have touch'd and find thee true as gold without alloy"
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Date: 1813
"Fear nothing, then, for on that side your heart lies, and steel will not cut steel; no sword can pierce it, impenetrable Diabolo"
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Date: 1817
"If I could rip up my heart and lay it at your feet, you would read engrav'd on it in capital letters your own adorable name"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1820
"Thus a number of writers possess the form, whilst they want the spirit of those whom, it is alleged, they imitate; because the former is the endowment of the age in which they live, and the latter must be the uncommunicated lightning of their own mind."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1820
"The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning, and the equilibrium between institutions and opinions is now restoring or is about to be restored."
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Date: 1820
"He might as wisely and as easily determine that his mind should no longer be the mirror of all that is lovely in the visible universe as exclude from his contemplation the beautiful which exists in the writings of a great contemporary."
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