Date: 1768
"Hope and fear alternate rising, / Strive for empire o'er my heart."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1769
"And still my soul they [cares] hold in pain, / Their cruel empire to maintain."
preview | full record— Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)
Date: 1770
"This Night we'd fix her [the Muse of Comedy's] Empire in your Hearts."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1770
Powerful charms may extend "their empire over the heart"
preview | full record— Foote, Samuel (1720-1777)
Date: 1770
"Reason and Nature are the judges here."
preview | full record— Foote, Samuel (1720-1777)
Date: 1771
"But, Sir, my passions are my masters; they take me where they will; and oftentimes they leave to reason and to virtue nothing but my wishes and my sighs."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1771
"I conjure you--however severe the conflict, gratitude shall ever be the predominant passion of my soul--oh! fly this instant."
preview | full record— Stevens, George Alexander (1710?-1784)
Date: 1773
Injur'd Reason may "her lost rights again / Resume, and of the passions take the rein"
preview | full record— Hitchcock, Robert (d. 1809)
Date: 1774
"The nymph, who in my bosom reigns, / With such full force my heart enchains, / That nothing ever can impair / The empire she possesses there."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1776
"Oh! jealousy, / Thou tyrant of the mind."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)