Date: 1782
"Hence all that is in man, pride, passion, art, / Powers of the mind , and feelings of the heart, / Insensible of Truth's almighty charms, / Starts at her first approach, and sounds to arms!"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1783, 1810
"As when thou call'st the shuddering thoughts to mourn / O'er talents wither'd in the untimely urn; / To grieve that Penury's resistless storm / Beat cold and deadly o'er the shrinking form, / Where mighty Genius had those powers enshrined, / Whose reign is boundless o'er each feeling mind; / To ...
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1784
Cupid is "Ever gaining conquered hearts" by using Miss Hoyland's beauty as a bow
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1784, 1787
The headlong rout's misguided rage may wage equal combat with the firm phalanx (of reasoning calms placid sense)
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1784, 1787
"His mind to gentler thoughts he tries to move, / and conquer strong renown by stronger love"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1785
In spite of an aged face a lover may "Still rule the conquer'd heart to life's remotest hour."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1785, 1838
"Hapless the lad whose mind such dreams [of scribbling] invade, / And win to verse the talents due to trade."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1785
"'Twixt shame and passion floats the struggling mind, / To Virtue now, and now to vice inclin'd, / This frowns refusal, that persuades to yield, / Till Reason falls, and Passion takes the field."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"She can conquer a heart--that she wants sense to keep."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"For spells may be said to exist in that tone, / Whose graces can conquer all hearts--but her own."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)