Date: 1805

Pity first stamp'd your story in my breast, and the impression is engrav'd for ever"

— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841)

Date: 1805

"My heart's heavier than all the iron, and brass, in my shop"

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)

Date: 1805

"Still is it the false coinage of my fears?"

— Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)

Date: April 18, 1805

"Universal benevolence: the chain of reason in which we all, willingly, bind ourselves. Nature gave us the links, and civiliz'd humanity has polish'd them."

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)

Date: January 15, 1805

"No, no, I feel a pack of dogs worrying my heart, and my eyes on fire--but I can't cry."

— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)

Date: 1806

"I'll hear no tales, listen to none of the charities of life: my heart is steeled"

— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)

Date: 1806

"When I ogled sweet Bess, from my glances she / For she had a bosom of steel--"

— Hoare, Prince (1755-1834); Kotzebue (1761-1819)

Date: 1807

"I took the man of my heart, proudly spurning those alliances, where all is fairly engrossed, but the affections, and every thing duly stampt, except an impression on the heart"

— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)

Date: 1807

"Father, why gird my poor brain with hoops of iron? In mercy loose them. Ah! now I'm free"

— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)

Date: 1808

Love of native soil is a ruling passion that may intervene in restless scenes

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)