Date: 1745
"At first his Passions burst / Quick as the Lightning's Flash: but in his Breast / Honour and Justice dwell--Trust me, to Reason / He will return."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1752
"Assist me, Furies, with your hellish Aid, / Nor let the Tyrant Conscience more invade; / Since I am stain'd with Blood, thro' Blood I'll wade."
preview | full record— Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784)
Date: 1753
"A thousand Fiends were in that Bosom, and all let loose to tempt me--I had resisted else."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"Within my bosom reigns another lord; / Honour, sole judge and umpire of itself."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: 1761
"Does Conscience, that just Judge, confirm my sentence? / There I am clear."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1770
"How light my heart feels from / A villainous guest that sat like lead upon it!"
preview | full record— Armstrong, John (1708/9-1779)
Date: 1779
"Such pensiveness oft follows, when the mind, / Surcharg'd with joy, hath yielded all her pow'rs / To the insidious guest."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1795, 1796
"But, hear, Louisa--a thought, just now, vast and immense as my own boundless passion, crowds on my troubled mind."
preview | full record— Timaeus, J. J. (1763-1809); Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)