Date: 1787
"It is enough--my scruples are at an end--my prejudices, like clouds before the rising sun, vanish before the lights of your superior reason."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1788
"Worlds would I give now for that sketch of my Quintin, that my cruel brother deprived me of; but his dear image is engraven on my heart"
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1788
"[A guardian] claps a pen in my hand, and ties me like a seal to his ugly parchment, while my heart can receive no impression, but the idea of my beloved Aircourt"
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1788
"O yes, this is his valet that Lady Jane mentioned, this is her O'Donovan and my Aircourt, but my heart is steel'd against him"
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1790
"Your zeal for the Czar hurries you to an inhumanity, that I thought a stranger to the breast of my gentle Michaelhoff."
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1792
"Love sits triumphant on the heart--his throne! / And breaks those fetters bigots would impose, / To aggravate the sense of human woes!"
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)
Date: 1792
Shakespeare "placed aloft on Inspiration's throne, / Made Fancy's magic kingdom all his own, / Burst from the trammels which his muse confined, / And poured the wealth of his exhaustless mind!"
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)
Date: 1792
"We from your judgment to your hearts appeal, / Generous as brave, you are not hearts of steel"
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1792
"That sweet enchantress ... Can give to Fancy's work a blaze more bright, / Or Reason's steady lamp feed with new light."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)