Date: 1789, 1797
"Ah, say, deluded Maid, / Would you, whose mind is pure as winter's snow, / Assort with one distain'd by foulest guilt, / Whose nightly rest the murther'd sprites would break."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George Monck (1763-1793)
Date: 1789, 1797
"Each motive base it [the soul] nobly spurns, / And bright with purest passion burns."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George Monck (1763-1793)
Date: 1789, 1797
"Still in this breast shall dearest Emma reign, / Nor e'er my will your virgin choice shall sway."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George Monck (1763-1793)
Date: 1790
"[W]hile I live, your generosity and valour shall be engraven on my heart"
preview | full record— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841)
Date: 1790
"[W]hile I live his generosity must be engraved on my heart"
preview | full record— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841); Miles Peter Andrews (d. 1814)
Date: 1790
"The hour approaches when we must for ever separate! Steel your bosom and weep not."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809); Johann Christian Brandes (1735-1799)
Date: 1790
"Your zeal for the Czar hurries you to an inhumanity, that I thought a stranger to the breast of my gentle Michaelhoff."
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1790
"Yet what infuses his mind unstain'd and pure? / Nurtur'd in venal, sycophantic schools-- / Eras'd each sterling virtue of the soul-- / Debas'd--new coin'd in flattery's servile mint, / He may become a pander to a prince."
preview | full record— Warren, Mercy Otis (1728-1814)
Date: March 8, 1790
"Love does all day the soul's great empire keep; / But Wine, at night, lulls the soft God asleep."
preview | full record— Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823)
Date: March 8, 1790
"Your pow'r my captive heart in chains shall bind, / Sweet as the graces of your face and mind."
preview | full record— Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823)