Date: 1797
"His mind resembled the glass of a magician, on which the apparitions of long-buried events arise, and as they fleet away, point portentously to shapes half-hid in the duskiness of futurity."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1797
"When their first excess was exhausted, and his mind was calm enough to reflect, the images that appeared on it struck him with solemn wonder."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1797
"Over the gloom of Schedoni, no scenery had, at any moment, power; the shape and paint of external imagery gave neither impression or colour to his fancy."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1797
"Her heart was possessed by evil passions, and all her perceptions were distorted and discoloured by them, which, like a dark magician, had power to change the fairest scenes into those of gloom and desolation."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1799
Pleasures past "glow sublime" in Memory's "crystal prism" and "Beam on the gloom'd and disappointed Mind"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1806
"Thy pure flame / Would light the sense opake, and warm the spring / Of boundless ecstacy; while nature's laws / So violated, plead, immortal-tongu'd, / For her dark-fated children; lead them forth / From bondage infamous!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1811
"Her hazle eye, unfix'd and bright, / Dazzles with ever-changing light, / Like flames toss'd by the wind; / Now swimming in quick-passing sadness, / Now laughing in her soul's pure gladness, / The mirror of her mind"
preview | full record— Mitford, Mary Russell (1787-1855)
Date: 1826
"[T]hen sweet Memory / May come, and with her mirror cheer thy mind, / On whose bright surface lovelier scenes shall live / Than any shrined within Italian climes."
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Date: 1842
"For now with Fancy's glass they see"
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1842
"E'en the mind's eye a glassy mirror shews, / And far too deeply her bold pencil draws"
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