Date: 1821
"The peaceful conscience" is "the heart's so cheering guest, / Which had--a rush for all the rest."
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1822
"He rose / Disturbed and frowning, for tumultuous thoughts / Crowded like night upon his heart"
preview | full record— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)
Date: 1823
"But at the desk Tipp was quite another sort of creature. Thence all ideas, that were purely ornamental, were banished"
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: 1825
Tender charities may reside in the "feeling breast"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1825
"Sweet are the thoughts that stir the virgin's breast / When love first enters there, a timid guest"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1826
"Her Heart was Judge, & could the difference trace / Between the Jocky-Air and real Grace, / Between the Lad, who was allowed to ride, / And show his Hunters at his Landlord's Side, / And One, who thought not that he should aspire / Beyond his Rank by riding with the Squire."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1831
"The mind may aptly be described under the denomination of the 'stranger at home.'"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
"On set occasions and at appropriate times we examine our stores, and ascertain the various commodities we have, laid up in our presses and our coffers. Like the governor of a fort in time of peace, which was erected to keep out a foreign assailant, we occasionally visit our armoury, and take acc...
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)