Date: w. 1748, 1762
"In Silence hush'd, to Reason's Voice, / Attends each mental Pow'r."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1785
"Such rapture filled Lactilla's vacant soul, / When the bright Moralist, in softness dressed, / Opes all the glories of the mental world, / Deigns to direct the infant thought, to prune / The budding sentiment, uprear the stalk / Of feeble fancy, bid idea live, / Woo the abstracted spirit form i...
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)