Date: 1700
"Tho' I'm convinc'd she lov'd me not, I can't / Banish her Image from my Love-sick mind."
preview | full record— Centlivre [née Freeman; other married name Carroll], Susanna (bap. 1669?, d. 1723)
Date: 1701
One may "as on the Throne, so in [her] Peoples Hearts / Reign Emperour"
preview | full record— Pix, Mary (c.1666-1720)
Date: 1701
"Here, take me Mother, Father, Wife, take each a part in my Capacious Heart; Reign ever there, as absolute as I o're all my mighty Empires"
preview | full record— Pix, Mary (c.1666-1720)
Date: 1796, 1806
"A dread coincidence of time and act / Drew me from Reason's empire to Despair!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1798
"It matters not, though gen'rous in their nature, / They yet may serve a most ungen'rous end; / And he who teaches men to think, though nobly, / Doth raise within their minds a busy judge / To scan his actions."
preview | full record— Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)