Date: 1763
"Till judgement stamp her sanction on the whole, / And sink th'impression deep into the soul.--"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1764
"Bold was the man, and fenc'd in ev'ry part /With oak, and ten-fold brass about the heart, / To build a play who tortur'd first his brain, / And then dar'd launch it on this stormy main."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1769
A debt of gratitude to parents is "stamp'd upon our frames; In polish'd minds it shines the most"
preview | full record— Reed, Joseph (1723-1787)
Date: 1769
"Your beauteous looks inspire my mind / With passion of the purest kind: / No selfish views my bosom sway, / But all is love without allay."
preview | full record— Reed, Joseph (1723-1787)
Date: 1785
In the "scales of suspense" two fancies may be hung
preview | full record— MacNally, Leonard (1752-1820)
Date: 1788
"[A guardian] claps a pen in my hand, and ties me like a seal to his ugly parchment, while my heart can receive no impression, but the idea of my beloved Aircourt"
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1795
"Thus let it stamp upon my heart a son's obedience; and to oblivion give each hostile thought!"
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)
Date: 1796
"Does not the hope of that fill our universities with blockheads--and cram our courts full of barristers, with heads as empty as they leave their clients' pockets?"
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)
Date: 1807
"I took the man of my heart, proudly spurning those alliances, where all is fairly engrossed, but the affections, and every thing duly stampt, except an impression on the heart"
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)