Date: January 19, 1791
"But it is then, and basking in the sunshine of unmerited fortune, that low, sordid, ungenerous, and reptile souls swell with their hoarded poisons; it is then that they display their odious splendour, and shine out in full lustre of their native villainy and baseness."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: January 19, 1791
"His blood they transfuse into their minds and into their manners."
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Date: 1801
The heart may bear a "fair image"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
Heaven "Braces each nerve, and stamps with energy his soul"
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Date: 1801
"Stampt on my soul, and with my life combin'd, / Is the remembrance of my much-lov'd King"
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Date: February, 1821
"This is the only true ideal--the heavenly tints of Fancy reflected in the bubbles that float upon the spring-tide of human life."
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