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
"Bid Rowe, bid Otway's magic softness rise, / Steal o'er his form, and languish in his eyes; / Melt in his voice, till Memory hints no more / The woes unreal; but, with forfeit power, / Resigns her empire o'er the yielding soul / To sighs and tears she ceases to controul."
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1810
"And, sexual pride subdued, at length disown / The Salique Law for Wit and Fancy's throne!"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1825
"One passion ruled despotic in her breast, / In every word, and look, and thought confest."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1825
"Thus, when the fervid Passions cool, / And Judgement, late, begins to rule; / When Reason mounts her throne serene, / And social Friendship gilds the scene; / When man, of ripened powers possest, / Broods o'er the treasures of his breast; / Exults, in conscious worth elate, / Lord of himself--al...
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)