Date: 1776
"Would it were passed, and that like Aetna, though my bosom flamed, my head was crowned with snow."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1785
"O, Montagu! forgive me, if I sing / red with the milder ray / Of soft humanity, and kindness bland: / So wide its influence, that the bright beams / Reach the low vale where mists of ignorance lodge, / Strike on the innate spark which lay immersed, / Thick-clogged, and almost quenched in total n...
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)