Date: 1797
"At the extravagance of her suspicions, however, and the weakness of her terrors, she blushed, and endeavoured to resist that propensity to fear, which nerves long pressed upon had occasioned in her mind."
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: 1797
"The subject of his waking thoughts still haunted his imagination, and the stranger, whose voice he had this night recognized as that of the prophet of Paluzzi, appeared before him."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1800, 1806
"He is young, / And yet the stamp of thought so tempers youth, / That all its fires are faded"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1806
"On a shelf, / (Yclept a mantle-piece) a phial stands, / Half fill'd with potent spirits!--haunt the poet's restless brain, / And fill his mind with fancies whimsical."
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1797, 1806
"While shadows, blanks to reason's orb, / In dread succession haunt the brain"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1806
"Where is the stamp which marks th' immortal soul, / And places thee above the growling brute?"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
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)
Date: 1825
"One only passion, strong and unconfined, / Disturbed the balance of her even mind"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)