Date: 1810
"Fear was his ruling passion; yet was Love, / Of timid kind, once known his heart to move."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1810
"Think that you hear them plead from Reason's throne!"
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1810
"Friends, parents, relatives, hope, reason, love," may "With anxious ardour for that empire strove"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1810
"Kindness can woo the Lion from his den, / A moral teaching to the sons of men; / His mighty heart in silken bonds can draw, / And bend his nature to sweet Pity's law."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1814
Shakespeare, "born for British minds alone, / To them has Fancy's boundless empire shewn"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
Byron's "powerful voice, with varying tone, / Makes all the empire of the mind thine own"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
Scott may "Usurp the empire of the wilder'd mind, / And leave the forms of modern life behind"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
Potent rulers of opinion may rule "the empire of the willing heart"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)