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Date: 1790
A better soul "by revolution strange" may come to sit on her throne
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
"O lovely queen, / Beauty usurps the empire of my heart, / All its affections."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
"[M]y conquer'd heart / 'Has nothing noble or aspiring in it"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
"'Who foils a Persian? Are they not all flint, / 'All steel and iron to the very heart?"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
"'The hero's heart is neither steel nor flint"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
"For what heart, / Not made of steel, could look on such a scene, / Three armies deep and strong, with countless horse, / Chariots untold, innumerable foot"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
"This it has been the glory of the great masters in all the arts to confront, and to overcome; and when they had overcome the first difficulty, to turn it into an instrument for new conquests over new difficulties; thus to enable them to extend the empire of their science; and even to push forwar...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1790
"All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1790
"All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1790
"All your sophisters cannot produce any thing better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for the great conservatories and magazines of our rights and...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
