Date: 1800
"I'm dead to pity as to fear, / My heart is cas'd with steel"
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1800
"We're dead to pity as to fear, / Our hearts are cas'd with steel"
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1800
"To pity wake, though dead to fear, / Nor case your hearts with steel."
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1800
"[I]f miseries pressed on thy brain too great for reason to support, would tend thee in the cell of madness, and even there derive more ecstasy from one kind look given in the transient intervals of sense, than all the unruffled pleasures that the world without thee can afford"
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1800
"Still Hope, with magic mirror tries / My sinking heart to cheer, / And points where smiling prospects rise / Of many a circling year"
preview | full record— Cobb, James (1756-1818)
Date: 1800
"I'll have a score of painters set to work, and hang my portrait up in every chamber through which you pass, 'till the detested image of him whose presence taints the genial air shall be so everlastingly impress'd on your mind's eye, in darkness you shall see it; in solitude, in sleep, I still wi...
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811); Maria Geisweiler (fl.1799); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1800, 1801
A woman's heart may be the judge
preview | full record— Thompson, Benjamin (1776-1816); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1800
"The mind that labours for a cure works ill / By feeding its own grief; wasting away / Like boiling waters in an useless struggle"
preview | full record— Bidlake, John (1755-1814)
Date: 1800
"Your power I dare / In despite of these chains, / Unconquered still my soul remains."
preview | full record— Cobb, James (1756-1818)
Date: 1800
"Know, that the human being's thoughts and deeds / Are not like ocean billows, blindly moved."
preview | full record— Schiller, Friedrich (1759-1805)