Date: 1791
"The generous Mind expanding into Joy, / While no mean Passion mixt its base Alloy;"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1791
"Hail to each ancient sacred shade / Of those, who gave the Muses aid, / Skill'd verse mysterious to unfold, / And set each brilliant thought in gold."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1791
"Love did thy lion-heart with courage steel!"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1791
"Bid the dark Furies all thy bosom steel, / And Cumberland afresh thine anger feel."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1792
"Could gold once give thee to my eager arms, / Lo, into guineas would I coin my heart;"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1792
"Had not a persecuting spirit steel'd / Their breasts to momentary pardon prone."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1793
"Strike the flint of his heart on the steel / Of freedom"
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1795
"Still to be serious, Pitt, before we part: / Let Mercy melt the mill-stone of thy heart."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1800
"Steel were the heart / That could this passing spectacle survey, / Nor feel the touch of sympathy within."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)