Date: 1687
"[B]ut thanks be prais'd the Generosity of our Cavaliers has open'd their obdurate Hearts with a Golden key, that let's 'em in at all opportunities"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1751, 1768
"When reason rules, what glory does ensue."
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Date: April 20, 1796
"Ere yet we were, / Our finer tones of mind some guardian spirit / Touch'd into harmony; and, when we met, / Th' according strings struck forth a sound so sweet, / That heav'n itself might listen! love! ev'n love, / That brand of discord, burns within our bosoms, / Pale—cold—before the steady fla...
preview | full record— Lee, Sophia (bap. 1750, d. 1824)
Date: April 20, 1796
"Oh! that superior mind is gone for ever! / --Yet still, thus ruin'd, like a broken mirror, / It gives a perfect image in each fragment!"
preview | full record— Lee, Sophia (bap. 1750, d. 1824)
Date: April 20, 1796
"Oh, farewell! / I cannot coin in words my soul's soft meaning!"
preview | full record— Lee, Sophia (bap. 1750, d. 1824)