Date: 1789
"Peace and Hope, sweet twins of Virtue, / Shall be strangers to thy breast"
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)
Date: 1789
"How far am I raised above a girl educated among antelopes; a girl, whose heart must ever be a stranger to love!"
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
Date: 1789?
"Pale Fear, and all her haggard train, / That generate and nurture pain, / And each unwelcome mental guest, / Lay dormant in the human breast."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1789
"I bid the traitor Love, adieu! / Who to this fond, believing bosom came, / A guest insidious and untrue, / With Pity's soothing voice--in Friendship's name."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: w. January 24, 1789
"Your dear idea reigns, and reigns alone; / Each thought intoxicated homage yields, / And riots wanton in forbidden fields."
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Date: 1789, 1800
"Some sort all our qualities each to its tribe, / And think Human Nature they truly describe"
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Date: 1789, 1792
"The tops of these scarce veil'd the roots of those; / A winding court where wandering fancy walk'd / And to herself responsive Echo talk'd."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1790
"But though man has, in this manner, been rendered the immediate judge of mankind, he has been rendered so only in the first instance; and an appeal lies from his sentence to a much higher tribunal, to the tribunal of their own consciences, to that of the supposed impartial and well-informed spec...
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
Date: 1790
"The jurisdiction of the man without is founded altogether in the desire of actual praise, and in the aversion to actual blame. The jurisdiction of the man within is founded altogether in the desire of praiseworthiness, and in the aversion to blameworthiness; in the desire of possessing those qua...
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
Date: 1790
"In such cases, this demigod within the breast appears, like the demigods of the poets, though partly of immortal, yet partly too of mortal extraction. When his judgments are steadily and firmly directed by the sense of praiseworthiness and blameworthiness, he seems to act suitably to his divine ...
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)