Date: 1800
"The mind that labours for a cure works ill / By feeding its own grief; wasting away / Like boiling waters in an useless struggle"
preview | full record— Bidlake, John (1755-1814)
Date: 1802
"[H]e did boast he had made his fortune by the coinage of his own brain, by Radix Rheno, I did think he laid, by coining ready rhino"
preview | full record— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841)
Date: 1803
"Oh, Lindorf! various emotions crowd in upon my soul!"
preview | full record— Boaden, James (1762-1839)
Date: 1805
"And, indeed, so long as chivalry lasted, the minstrels were protected and caressed, because their music tended to do honour to the ruling passion of the times, and to encourage and foment a martial spirit."
preview | full record— 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."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1805
Pity first stamp'd your story in my breast, and the impression is engrav'd for ever"
preview | full record— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841)
Date: 1806
"I'll hear no tales, listen to none of the charities of life: my heart is steeled"
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Date: 1808
Love of native soil is a ruling passion that may intervene in restless scenes
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1808
"Judge not the Man by his exterior part: / Virtue's strong root in every soil will grow, / Rich ores lie buried under piles of snow"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1810
"Hence are his senses to his reason subject."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)