Date: 1799
"And by him is our union also sanctioned!--love too first chained our hearts together, and nature drew the bond more closely."
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"I saw you stand in chains before Pizarro; I heard you speak like an ancient Roman; and at that moment the chains glided from your hands to my heart."
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"And by him is our union also sanctioned!--love too first chained our hearts together, and nature drew the bond more closely."
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"You will not, by blasting the latter, render yourself unworthy of the former, and tear asunder the only bond which unites Elvira's heart to yours."
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"What are, to me, the ties of kindred?--I'll burst those trammels of affection, bonds of the soul:--I never knew their force: Nature denied me the sweet play of the heart, and all its persuasive eloquence."
preview | full record— Craven, Keppel (1779-1851); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1799
The Sophist boasts in vain that he can "Disprove [Nature's] general empire o'er the heart"
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
The fatal mist through which one judges may be dispelled
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"Yes--they will give enlightened freedom to our minds, who are themselves the slaves of passion, avarice, and pride."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"Mock as you will, I cannot, like you, steel my heart against the common feelings of humanity"
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1799
"Ah, you lucky dog! you have an estate in every corner of your brain, and a pretty income at the end of every finger."
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)