Date: 1799
"A country is only a family on a larger scale; and transient, indeed, must that unanimity be, when inclination is law, and the various passions of the mind are suffer'd to run riot"
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1800
"The mind that labours for a cure works ill / By feeding its own grief; wasting away / Like boiling waters in an useless struggle"
preview | full record— Bidlake, John (1755-1814)
Date: 1805
"Still is it the false coinage of my fears?"
preview | full record— Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)
Date: 1826
"Now, with submission to my betters, I have another way, sir; I'll drive my tyrant from my heart, and place myself on her throne."
preview | full record— King, Thomas (1730-1805)
Date: 1826
One may be "lord of [his] own tenement, and keep [his] household in order"
preview | full record— King, Thomas (1730-1805)
Date: 1826
A woman's "reason [may be] ship-wrecked upon her passion, and the hulk of her understanding lies thumping against the rock of her fury"
preview | full record— King, Thomas (1730-1805)