Date: 1796, 1806
"Ambition!--not that emulative zeal Which wings the tow'ring souls of godlike men! / But bold, oppressive, self-created pow'r, / That, trampling o'er the barrier of the laws, / And scattering wide the tender shoots of pity, / Strikes at the root of reason, and confines / Nature itself in bondage!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1797
""But returning passion, like a wave that has recoiled from the shore, afterwards came with recollected energy, and swept from her feeble mind the barriers which reason and conscience had begun to rear."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1799
"If I knew but of a key to his heart, my closet should be open to him directly
preview | full record— Geisweiler, Maria (fl. 1799); Kotezebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1806
"But when thy true poetic lays, / Pierce to the Heart's remotest cell; / We feel the conscious innate praise"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1806
"All around / A solemn stillness seems to guard the scene, / Nursing the brood of thought--a thriving brood / In the rich mazes of the cultur'd brain"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1808
"No gossip in my faithful heart / Shall ever occupy her room"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
"The solemn procession, headed by Baddely, of tea-board, urn, and cake-bearers, made its appearance, and delivered her from a grievous imprisonment of body and mind."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1825
"How would it open every secret cell / Where cherished thought and fond remembrance sleep!"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)