Date: 1801
"'Let your expertest ministers be sent/ 'His heart against compassion's touch to steel;
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
"'Still thy vindictive measures to befriend, / 'And for to-morrow's proof thy soul to steel."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
" And, while around their spells accurs'd they shed, / For deeds of foul import his breast they steel'd"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
"Remorseless fury steel'd each rugged breast"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
"Some fickle creatures boast a soul / True as the needle to the pole; / Yet shifting, like the weather, / The needle's constancy forego / For any novelty, and show / Its variations rather."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1801
"My soul her bondage ill endures; / I pant for liberty like yours."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: December 18, 1802
"Then Addington, thy rigour quit, / Nor boast the iron heart of P---;"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1802
One must leave improvements of the "vast domain" and "prop the throne of reason e're it falls."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1802
"Far other ruins henceforth be your care: /Search for the failing towers of human kind, / And save that noblest edifice, the mind"
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1802
In England "There, still may sense and reason have a throne!"
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)