Date: 1804
"The daring imp has learn'd to stand his ground; / Well steel'd his heart, and bronz'd his face"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1804
The "tender, feeling heart" is "Compassion's throne"
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1807, 1810
Genius may give an actor "despotic empire o'er the heart"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1807, 1810
"Passions that now are but illusive deem'd, / Then shall their empire in thy heart attain"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1810
"They form a picture, delicate of trait, / Soft as the scene now mirror'd in thy breast"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: October 10, 1869
"Recitations alone readily degenerate into dusty repetitions, and lectures alone are too often a useless expenditure of force. The lecturer pumps laboriously into sieves. The water may be wholesome, but it runs through."
preview | full record— Eliot, Charles William (1834-1926)
Date: May 30, 2013
"And the key to life is to develop an internal moral, emotional G.P.S. that can tell you which way to go."
preview | full record— Winfrey, Oprah (b. January 29, 1954)