Date: 1773
"How bright the scene to Fancy's eye appears, / Through the long perspective of distant years, / When this, this little group their country calls / From academic shades and learned halls, / To fix her laws, her spirit to sustain, / And light up glory through her wide domain!"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"O Wisdom! if thy soft controul / Can soothe the sickness of the soul, / Can bid the warring passions cease, / And breathe the calm of tender peace;-- / Wisdom! I bless thy gentle sway, / And ever, ever will obey."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
The soul contains "An embryo of God, a spark of fire divine / Which must burn on for ages."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"But if thou com'st with frown austere / To nurse the brood of care and fear; / To bid our sweetest passions die, / And leave us in their room a sigh; / Or if thine aspect stern have power / To wither each poor transient flower, / That cheers the pilgrimage of woe, / And dry the springs whence ho...
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
Toil and danger "feed and ripen minds" (not "meats and drinks" or "balmy airs, and vernal suns and showers")
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1777, 1780
"He made but little reply; but the impression sunk deep into his rancorous heart; every word in Edmund's behalf was like a poisoned arrow that rankled in the wound, and grew every day more inflamed."
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: 1777, 1780
"It is easy for men in your situation to advise, but it is difficult for one in mine to practise; wounded in body and mind, it is natural that I should strive to avoid the extremes of shame and punishment."
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: 1784
"Ah! season of delight!--could aught be found / To soothe awhile the tortur'd bosom's pain, / Of Sorrow's rankling shaft to cure the wound, / And bring life's first delusions once again, / 'Twere surely met in thee!."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"The mind's disease, perhaps, I'm not less a stranger to--Oh! trust the noble patient to my care."
preview | full record— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)
Date: 1788
"She knew none of the inhabitants of the vast city to which she was going: the mass of buildings appeared to her a huge body without an informing soul."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)