Date: 1753
The "Sunshine of a northern Beauty is too feeble to thaw the icy Heart of a French Courtier"
preview | full record— Foote, Samuel (1720-1777)
Date: 1755
"If ever gentle Pity touch'd thy Heart, / Now let it melt!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"Thou, superior to the Frowns / Of Fate, can'st pour thy Sunshine o'er the Soul, / And brighten Woe to Rapture!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"But Tears of Joy: For I have seen ZAPHIRA, / And pour'd the Balm of Peace into her Breast"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"This fatal day stirs my time-settled sorrow, / Troubles afresh the fountain of my heart."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"Time, that wears out the trace of deepest anguish, / As the sea smooths the prints made in the sand, / Has past o'er thee in vain."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"Would thou wert not / Compos'd of grief and tenderness alone, / But had'st a spark of other passions in thee, / Pride, anger, vanity, the strong desire / Of admiration, dear to woman kind;/ These might contend with, and allay thy grief, / As meeting tides and currents smooth our firth."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"Sadly he says, that pity is the best, / The noblest passion of the human breast: / For when its sacred streams the heart o'erflow, / In gushes pleasure with the tide of woe; / And when its waves retire, like those of Nile, / They leave behind them such a golden soil, / That there the virtues wit...
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: 1775
Love and fear may dry up "soft springs of pity" in the heart and freeze them
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1775
Faded ideas float in the fancy like half-forgotten dreams
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)