Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"If in the breasts of men one spark remains / Of sacred love, fidelity, or pity, / Some in your cause will arm."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"'Twas I! alas! 'twas I / That fill'd her breast with fury"
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"Sadly he says, that pity is the best, / The noblest passion of the human breast: / For when its sacred streams the heart o'erflow, / In gushes pleasure with the tide of woe; / And when its waves retire, like those of Nile, / They leave behind them such a golden soil, / That there the virtues wit...
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Date: 1760
"My heart is steel, / I weep not, nor complain."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: 1769
"But, first, I'll tell thee thy detested deeds, / And gall, if possible, thine iron heart."
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Date: 1769
"And still my soul they [cares] hold in pain, / Their cruel empire to maintain."
preview | full record— Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)
Date: 1769
"Nor fill my stormy breast with ire."
preview | full record— Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)
Date: 1769
Cares may "torment my tortur'd mind, / Leaving their rugged tracts behind"
preview | full record— Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)
Date: 1769
"Something like pity shakes my firm resolves, / And almost melts the iron heart of Zingis."
preview | full record— Dow, Alexander (1735/6-1779)
Date: 1769
"Does thy iron heart / Deny me this--a portion of his grave?"
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