Date: 1779
"Darting like hidden sun-beams on my mind, / And make it drunk with bliss."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1780
"This duty paid, a dawn, like that of peace, / By soft degrees illum'd the mourner's mind."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1777, 1780
"While he prayed, he felt an enlargement of heart beyond what he had ever experienced before; all idle fears were dispersed, and his heart glowed with divine love and affiance: He seemed raised above the world and all its pursuits."
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: 1782
"What Addison has said of the Ways of Heaven, may with much more propriety & accuracy be applied to the the 'Mind of Man which indeed, is Dark & Intricate, Filled with wild Mazes, & perplexed with Error.''"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Is all over? no ray of reason left? no knowledge of thy wretched Delvile?"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Why drive him from my presence? he might now / Raise my sunk soul, and my benighted mind / Enlighten with religion's cheering ray."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1782
"Proceed, proceed, thrice venerable sage! / Enlighten my dark mind with this new ray, / This dawning of salvation!"
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1784
"I hurry forward, passion's helplesss slave! And scorning reason's mild and sober light, / Pursue the path that leads me to the grave!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1785
"Unwelcome is the first bright dawn of light / To the dark soul; impatient, she rejects, / And fain would push the heavenly stranger back; / She loathes the cranny which admits the day; / Confused, afraid of the intruding guest; / Disturbed, unwilling to receive the beam, / Which to herself her n...
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1785
"The effort rude to quench the cheering flame / Was mine, and e'en on Stella could I gaze / With sullen envy, and admiring pride, / Till, doubly roused by Montagu, the pair / Conspire to clear my dull, imprisoned sense, / And chase the mists which dimmed my visual beam."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)