Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"And the mind's poor infirmities dash'd from their throne, / Forgetting the weakness that lives in their own."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"Like a beggar at law, whom no barrister blesses, / His mind lacks an agent to plead its distresses; / All his muscles rebel 'gainst judicious controul"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1790
Custom "wars with Wit for Empire o'er the mind / Fights to the last unknowing how to yield, / And inch by inch disputes the mental field"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1790
"The passions heated, reason strives in vain; / Her empire's lost, and the distracted soul / Becomes the sport of devils, wholly bent / To turn and wind it in a world of sin."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
"'Tis God's decree engrav'd upon the heart / To make us wait with patience, till he comes, / Undraws the curtain, and dispels the gloom, / And takes us to his bosom, and rewards / Our constancy and truth."
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Date: 1790
"Her sickly mind / Was ill at ease, though seated on the throne / of affluence and plenty."
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Date: 1790
'While we converse together, and I feel / 'Secret correction from the bolt of truth / 'Shot home, my better soul in triumph rides, / Borne on the wings of reason to her throne."
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Date: 1790
One may have two souls "which, like two mighty Kings, / 'Ever contending for the sov'reignty, / 'Stir up sedition and revolt within"
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Date: 1790
A better soul "by revolution strange" may come to sit on her throne
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Date: 1790
"O lovely queen, / Beauty usurps the empire of my heart, / All its affections."
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