Date: w. 1784, 1799
"Pleased she surveys her infant charge, / Beholds the mental powers enlarge, / And as the young ideas rise, / Directs their issues to the skies."
preview | full record— West, Jane (1758-1852)
Date: 1799
One may hie "From his own blank inanity"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1799
"They are brave fellows;--they have arms of iron, and hearts of wax."
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"You will not, by blasting the latter, render yourself unworthy of the former, and tear asunder the only bond which unites Elvira's heart to yours."
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: w. 1796, 1799
"Notwithstanding the law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members."
preview | full record— Osborn, Sarah (1714-1796)
Date: 1800, 1806
"He is young, / And yet the stamp of thought so tempers youth, / That all its fires are faded"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)