Date: 1778, 1804
"There is some kind and courtly sprite / That o'er the realm of Fancy reigns."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1783
"Learn hence, that husbands will be blind / To every beauty but the mind; / Great Venus there should hold her court; / should the Loves and Graces sport / There rapture beam'd in every feature, / Bound by that Cestus, called Good Nature."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1785
Jealousy's monsters may hurl "frighted Reason from her throne, / And with her all the charities that wait / To grace her virtuous Court"
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1785
When Passion dwells in the heart it is "Pleasure's court"
preview | full record— Lovibond, Edward (bap. 1723, d. 1775)
Date: 1789, 1792
"The tops of these scarce veil'd the roots of those; / A winding court where wandering fancy walk'd / And to herself responsive Echo talk'd."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1789, 1791, 1799
"Throned in the vaulted heart, his dread resort, / Inexorable Conscience holds his court"
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: 1792
"But souls in common are a dreary waste, / By brambles, thistles, barb'rous docks disgrac'd; / That need the ploughshare, harrow, and the fire--"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1795
One may have "The throne of Virtue in [his] steadfast heart"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1799
"A head of wax should never court the sun."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)