Date: 1747
"Oh, set me, as a Seal upon thy Heart, / Mark'd for my own, I claim the smallest Part."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1748
"But should some swain more skillful than the rest, / his name on this cold marble breast, / Not rolling ages could deface that name."
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Date: 1781, 1810
"Triumphant love, with still superior art, / Engraves their wonders on the Painter's heart."
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1784
"She awakens with new vivacity to the impressions of pleasure, which her mind was accustomed to receive from scenic objects"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1787
"The soft parental rapture, fond embrace, / Kind gratulation, smile of filial love, / All form a deep impression"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1787
"Still wilt thou hang upon my joyless soul / That clasps thy dear impression"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1788
There are those "whom the traffic of their race / Has robb'd of every human grace; / Whose harden'd souls no more retain / Impressions Nature stamp'd in vain; / All that distinguishes their kind, / For ever blotted from their mind; / As streams, that once the landscape gave / Reflected o...
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1791
"In the rich realms of polished taste, / Where judgment penetrates to find / The treasures of the unwrought mind, / Where conversation's ardent spirit / Refines from dross the ore of merit, / Where emulation aids the flame / And stamps the sterling bust of fame."
preview | full record— West, Jane (1758-1852)
Date: 1796
In Roman ampitheaters monarchs sat and watched "How beasts of prey could tear the human heart, / Rich with some lov'd impression.-"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1796
"My sons, if rich, might wield / The fan emblaz'd with Psyche and her boy / O'er some enchantress, whose contagious sighs / Would blast the best impression of their souls."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)