Date: 1763
"And short-liv'd o'er the heart is passion's reign"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: w. 1764, published 1820
"Yet, why repine? What, though by bonds confined, / Should bonds enslave the vigour of the mind?"
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1765
"By reason's standard, then, you judge amiss / Of those whose legislator is caprice."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1767
"Be rul'd by reason for your beauty's sake."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1768
"Hope and fear alternate rising, / Strive for empire o'er my heart."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1780
"Once love gets into a man's head, poor reason is brought before a court-martial of the passions, and cashiered without a hearing"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1785
Play [gambling] may be a ruling passion
preview | full record— MacNally, Leonard (1752-1820)
Date: 1786
Love of admiration may be a ruling passion
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1792
"Love sits triumphant on the heart--his throne! / And breaks those fetters bigots would impose, / To aggravate the sense of human woes!"
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)