Date: 1761
"While Frugi liv'd / Thy sorrows kept possession of my heart, / And Love receded from the stronger guest; / Now his dear image rises to my view / So piteously array'd, with such a train / Of tender thoughts assails this shatter'd frame, / That Reason quits her fort, and flies before, / To the las...
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1762
"Thy griefs pent up, have prey'd upon thy heart."
preview | full record— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)
Date: 1762
"Avarice has canker'd their imprison'd minds, / And lust of gold has blinded them to justice."
preview | full record— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)
Date: 1792 [1794]
"Your head's an auction-room of gauze and ruffles"
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1796, 1806
"Ambition!--not that emulative zeal Which wings the tow'ring souls of godlike men! / But bold, oppressive, self-created pow'r, / That, trampling o'er the barrier of the laws, / And scattering wide the tender shoots of pity, / Strikes at the root of reason, and confines / Nature itself in bondage!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1826
One may be "lord of [his] own tenement, and keep [his] household in order"
preview | full record— King, Thomas (1730-1805)