Date: 1799
"They are brave fellows;--they have arms of iron, and hearts of wax."
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"You will not, by blasting the latter, render yourself unworthy of the former, and tear asunder the only bond which unites Elvira's heart to yours."
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"Ah, you lucky dog! you have an estate in every corner of your brain, and a pretty income at the end of every finger."
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1799
"Ignorance has set her stamp upon him--his mind seared to every virtuous impression--his heart flint, and his temper moved by the slightest breath"
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1800
"[I]f miseries pressed on thy brain too great for reason to support, would tend thee in the cell of madness, and even there derive more ecstasy from one kind look given in the transient intervals of sense, than all the unruffled pleasures that the world without thee can afford"
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1800
"The inner world, his microcosmus, is / The deep shaft, out of which they spring eternally."
preview | full record— Schiller, Friedrich (1759-1805)
Date: 1801
"Heaven stamped that energy in your heart, which raised your avenging arm"
preview | full record— Cobb, James (1756-1818)
Date: 1807
"I took the man of my heart, proudly spurning those alliances, where all is fairly engrossed, but the affections, and every thing duly stampt, except an impression on the heart"
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)
Date: 1807
"Father, why gird my poor brain with hoops of iron? In mercy loose them. Ah! now I'm free"
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)
Date: 1820
"Good bye, I wish you a wiser master--a jailor' heart should be like you--iron."
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)