Date: 1724, 1755
Rust may "fair endowments hide"
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1724, 1755
Unemployed wit stagnates like standing waters
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1724, 1755
The mind is a soil that must be cultivated; left fallow "an hateful crop succeeds"
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1724, 1755
Wit may be refined by reason to disengage metal from the mine [of the mind]
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1726
"Oh! I hate the wretched victors: / Fancy would fain paint their pictures."
preview | full record— Sansom, Martha [née Fowke] (1690-1736)
Date: 1733
The "fond Breast" may be populated by "jealous Demons"
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Date: 1733
"[S]prightly Wit, that all admire," may be "an unlicens'd lawless Fire"
preview | full record— Chandler, Mary (1687-1745)
Date: 1733
"And happy He, that with prevailing Art / Could gain a Conquest o'er her Virgin Heart"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
One may "Conquer all Hearts without designing"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)