Date: April 17, 1795
"Like Britain's Monarch" an audience may "act [their] generous parts, /And fix [their] empire, in [actors] greatful hearts.
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1796
"[T]here is a Judge to whose all-seeing eye our inmost thoughts lie open"
preview | full record— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)
Date: 1796
"I taught this breast, / Which Truth once made her throne, to forge a lie; / This tongue to utter it"
preview | full record— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)
Date: 1796, 1806
"A dread coincidence of time and act / Drew me from Reason's empire to Despair!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: January 13, 1796
"Come then, sweet sounds, for you alone / Can bid the tumult cease, / Restore reason to it's throne / His bosom to it's peace."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1798
Virtue may slumber "and vice for a moment usurped her throne in [one's] heart" but she may awake again, "and with a look abashed and banished the usurper for ever"
preview | full record— Papendick, George (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798
A king may "Cherish the ripening mind of [his] vast empire"
preview | full record— Noehden, Georg Heinrich (1770-1826) and John Stoddart (1773-1856)
Date: 1798
One may be "banished ... not only from [another's] heart, but from all share of empire"
preview | full record— Noehden, Georg Heinrich (1770-1826) and John Stoddart (1773-1856)
Date: 1798
"Agatha's heart is to be your judge."
preview | full record— Inchbald, Elizabeth (1753-1821); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1798
The heart of another may be one's judge
preview | full record— Porter, Stephen (1781-1868); Kotzebue (1761-1819)