Date: 1801
A king may "fix his empire o'er the willing heart"
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Date: 1801
Time and absence join'd may chase the soft invader from the mind
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Date: 1802
The heart of a corps of volunteers may be the monarch's throne
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Date: 1802
"Is prouder yet in sterling worth to shine, / Stamp'd by the friendship of a mind like thine"
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Date: 1804
"For thou, within the human Mind / Fix'd, as on thy peculiar throne, / Sitt'st like a Deity inshrined."
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1804
The "tender, feeling heart" is "Compassion's throne"
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Date: 1804
"[L]ove-darting Eyes" may show "How many hearts their empire own"
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Date: 1805
"There, as those cells [Satan's myrmidons] empty found / Where brains in wiser pates abound, / They fill'd them with mephitic gas / From hell, which downward strove to pass, / But, gaining exit through the throat, / By leave of porter, Epiglott, / Vented itself in fustian storm / Rhetorical."
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Date: 1808
"Let us awhile divert our spleen, / Recall the gay, the cheerful scene; /Awhile in Fancy's mirror trace / The social night, the joyous chase"
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Date: 1810
"And yet, my heart, within thy silent cell / Dwells a fair image which is lovelier still."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)