Date: 1733
"Steal softly to her Heart, and see, / If any Room be left for me; / And if one Place be unpossess'd, / Fit to receive so true a Guest"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
Base usurpers of the soul may be gone, "and Reason long depos'd regains her Throne"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
Reason's "clear Mirror" can reflect the past actions and represent passions
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: w. before June 1735?
"Let vows or benefits the vulgar bind, / Such ties can never chain th' intrepid mind."
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Date: 1736, 1737, 1759, 1744, 1771, 1773
"A female mind like a rude fallow lies; / No seed is sown, but weeds spontaneous rise."
preview | full record— Ingram, Anne [née Howard; other married name Douglas], Viscountess Irwin (c. 1696-1764)
Date: 1736, 1737, 1759, 1744, 1771, 1773
"Female youth, left to weak woman's care" are "Strangers to reason and reflection made, / Left to their passions, and by them betrayed; / Untaught the noble end of glorious truth, / Bred to deceive even from earliest youth; / Unused to books, nor virtue taught to prize; / Whose mind, a savage was...
preview | full record— Ingram, Anne [née Howard; other married name Douglas], Viscountess Irwin (c. 1696-1764)
Date: 1736, 1737, 1759, 1744, 1771, 1773
"As well might we expect, in winter, spring, / As land untilled a fruitful crop should bring; / As well might we expect Peruvian ore / We should possess, yet dig not for the store: / Culture improves all fruits, all sorts we find, / Wit, judgement, sense--fruits of the human mind."
preview | full record— Ingram, Anne [née Howard; other married name Douglas], Viscountess Irwin (c. 1696-1764)
Date: 1737
One shouldn't "dread th' Effects of all their treach'rous Arts, / Their boasted Stratagems to conquer Hearts"
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1737
"Yet when my trembling Soul's dislodg'd, wou'd be / No Room of State within the Grave for me."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1737
"Her lovely image, on his mind impress'd, / Had fix'd her empire in his yielding breast."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)