Date: 1791
"Bid the dark Furies all thy bosom steel, / And Cumberland afresh thine anger feel."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1791, 1800
"Then from the iron tablet of my mind, / Will I efface my catalogue of wrongs."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1791, 1806
"'Till virtue, pointing out the purer mind, / Secures the gem, and leaves the dross behind, / Claims the bright spirit from its native clod, / And bears it, spotless, to the sight of God!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: January 19, 1791
"He must have a heart of adamant who could hear a set of traitors puffed up with unexpected and undeserved power, obtained by an ignoble, unmanly, and perfidious rebellion, treating their honest fellow-citizens as rebels, because they refused to bind themselves, through their conscience, against ...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: January 19, 1791
"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1791
"I will venture to say, that in no writings whatever can be found more bark and steel for the mind, if I may use the expression; more that can brace and invigorate every manly and noble sentiment."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1792
"Man, taking her body, the mind is left to rust; so that while physical love enervates man, as being his favourite recreation, he will endeavour to enslave woman."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1792
"Men!--Men! false! treacherous crocodiles! Your eyes are water! your hearts are iron!"
preview | full record— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1792
"The tears, the supplications of his father, never reach'd his iron heart.-- "
preview | full record— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1792
"The King of England steels his heart against us"
preview | full record— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)