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: 1810
"This is Mr Brydone's own simile, and beyond any other which could have been chosen, brings to the mind's eye these peculiar effects of vision"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
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: 1812
The realms of mind are ruled by shades
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1812
Fancy may be kindled
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1813
The thought may be feasted and the mind filled with sweet sensations
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1816
"Nor wide stretched lands, nor interposing deep, / Can check the progess of th’ unfetter’d soul."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
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
The "searching mind" may make "keen glances"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1825
"What powers lie folded in thy curious frame,-- / Senses from objects locked, and mind from thought! "
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)