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"

— Bidlake, John (1755-1814)

Date: 1805

"Still is it the false coinage of my fears?"

— 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."

— King, Thomas (1730-1805)

Date: 1826

One may be "lord of [his] own tenement, and keep [his] household in order"

— 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"

— King, Thomas (1730-1805)

Date: 1848

A sword's point may be dipped in "the gloomy current of a traitor's heart"

— Keats, John (1795-1821)