Date: 1762
"Reflect, before the fatal Ax / My threatned Doom has wrought: / Nor sacrifice to sensual Taste / The nobler Growth of Thought."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1773
Souls may be ripened in "our northern sky"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
Toil and danger "feed and ripen minds" (not "meats and drinks" or "balmy airs, and vernal suns and showers")
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1778
The "pure flame" of virtue is planted "by an unerring rule" and glows in the heart
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1784
The partial Muse, has from my earliest hours / Smil'd on the rugged path I'm doom'd to tread, / And still with sportive hand has snatch'd wild flowers, / To weave fantastic garlands for my head: / But far, far happier is the lot of those / Who never learn'd her dear delusive art; / Which, while i...
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1784
"Not death itself thine empire can destroy; / Towards thee, even then, we turn the languid eye; / Still trust in thee to bid our memory bloom, / And scatter roses round the silent tomb."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1785
"Such rapture filled Lactilla's vacant soul, / When the bright Moralist, in softness dressed, / Opes all the glories of the mental world, / Deigns to direct the infant thought, to prune / The budding sentiment, uprear the stalk / Of feeble fancy, bid idea live, / Woo the abstracted spirit form i...
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1787
The young mind is an "opening flower" that may be beautified by cultivation
preview | full record— Wallis, Hannah (fl. 1787)
Date: 1788
"For they have keen affections, kind desires, / Love strong as death, and active patriot fires; / All the rude energy, the fervid flame, / Of high-souled passions, and ingenuous shame: / Strong but luxuriant virtues boldly shoot / From the wild vigour of a savage root."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1788
"Or, if where savage habit steels / The vulgar mind, one bosom feels / The sacred claim of helpless woe-- / If Pity in that soil can grow; / Pity! whose tender impulse darts / With keenest force on nobler hearts; / As flames that purest essence boast, / Rise highest when they tremble most."
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)