Date: 1798
"Our minds shall drink at every pore / The spirit of the season"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1798
"Some silent laws our hearts may make, / Which they shall long obey"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1798
"We'll frame the measure of our souls, / They shall be tuned to love"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1803
"WHEN the awaken'd soul receives / The first impression fancy gives / Temper'd by soft affection's reign, / Sweet are the days of pleasing pain."
preview | full record— Hunter [née Home], Anne (1742-1821)
Date: 1803
The muse "beams a visionary day: / Bright as the magic torch she early gave / To light thy ven'trous way, through fancy's secret cave."
preview | full record— Hunter [née Home], Anne (1742-1821)
Date: 1803
" Bless'd be that Eye which dropp'd the friendly tear, / That sign'd each truth, and stamp'd the Soul sincere!"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1804
"The daring imp has learn'd to stand his ground; / Well steel'd his heart, and bronz'd his face"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1804
The "tender, feeling heart" is "Compassion's throne"
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1807, 1810
Genius may give an actor "despotic empire o'er the heart"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1807, 1810
"Passions that now are but illusive deem'd, / Then shall their empire in thy heart attain"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)