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Date: w. 1789, 1804
"Can Mammon's votaries vainly hope to bind, / In shining shackles, his immortal Mind?"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: w. 1789, 1804
"While Vanity unveils her whiffling flags, / Her glittering trinkets, and her tawdry rags-- / Spreads spangled nets, and fills her philter'd bowl, / To fix each Sense, and fascinate the Soul-- / Her birdlime twigs contrived with such sly Art, / That while they tangle thoughts, they trap the heart...
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: March 8, 1790
"Love does all day the soul's great empire keep; / But Wine, at night, lulls the soft God asleep."
preview | full record— Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823)
Date: March 8, 1790
"Your pow'r my captive heart in chains shall bind, / Sweet as the graces of your face and mind."
preview | full record— Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823)
Date: 1793
"Silent, for ever cold!--Renew, renew / Thy plaint, that well might rend a heart of steel!"
preview | full record— Kendall, William (1768-1832)
Date: w. c. 1793? [in MS]
"Love to faults is always blind / Always is to joy inclind / Lawless wingd & unconfind / And breaks all chains from every mind."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: w. c. 1793? [in MS]
"Deceit to secresy confind / Lawful cautious & refind / To every thing but interest blind / And forges fetters for the mind."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1795, 1796
The "anvil of gnawing conscience is never cool"
preview | full record— Timaeus, J. J. (1763-1809); Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1795, 1796
The "contemplative hour must sometimes exist to a mind of your stamp"
preview | full record— Timaeus, J. J. (1763-1809); Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1795, 1796
"Let this mark of elasticity of mind be stamped on the annals of truth"
preview | full record— Timaeus, J. J. (1763-1809); Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
