Date: 1799
"Yes--they will give enlightened freedom to our minds, who are themselves the slaves of passion, avarice, and pride."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"The heart and the mind are prejudiced judges, ever at war with consistency and truth; they recoil with indignation from the smallest speck on another's conduct, yet pass with exultation over the mountain that darkens their own"
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"Thou enviest the sovereignty Pizarro holds over my heart; but be assured, you never shall reign there."
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
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, 1801
A woman's heart may be the judge
preview | full record— Thompson, Benjamin (1776-1816); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1805
"And, indeed, so long as chivalry lasted, the minstrels were protected and caressed, because their music tended to do honour to the ruling passion of the times, and to encourage and foment a martial spirit."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1805
One may have a heart that is "the throne of every charity which adorns humanity, and of every aspiration that ascends to God."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1808
Love of native soil is a ruling passion that may intervene in restless scenes
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1810
"Hence are his senses to his reason subject."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)