Date: February 19, 1798
"Whether material substance unrefined, / Owns the strong impulse of instinctive mind, / Which to one centre points diverging lines, / Confounds, refracts, invig'rates, and combines?"
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: 1798
"So, mighty Burke! in thy sepulchral urn, / To fancy's view, the lamp of Truth shall burn"
preview | full record— Canning, George (1770-1827)
Date: 1799
Events "'Together ta'en--they on my mind / 'No good impression leave behind."
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1799
"'Th' woes imagination broaches / 'Drive through my brain like mourning coaches."
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1799
"A head of wax should never court the sun."
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)
Date: 1800
"Piece of the nether millstone is his heart / Who marks ill-pleas'd the frolic of the child, / Or views the rural festival unmov'd."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1801
A lover's heart may be one's throne
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: December 18, 1802
"Then Addington, thy rigour quit, / Nor boast the iron heart of P---;"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1802
"Paint courts, whose sorceries, too seducing bind, / In chains, in shameful slavish chains, the mind; / Courts, where unblushing Flatt'ry finds the way, / And casts a cloud o'er Truth's eternal ray."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)