Date: 1792
"For oft, their due degrees / Abandon'd, one essential ev'n excludes / The rest; or argument, perhaps, usurps / The throne of pathos; or the passions, free / From previous forms, as great emergence calls, / Burst on a CATILINE's devoted head / Impetuous."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
"Around [Religion's] emerald throne / The passions tremble at her awful beck-- ' Her ministers as flaming fire,' to waft / Into the mortal bosom the pure spark / Æthereal, that refines our thought"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1793
"Alas the sex you little know, / Their ruling passion is a Beau."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1794
The mists of faction may pour around one's head
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1798
"Law and Reason's Empire to the skies" may "On the firm base of British freedom rise"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)