Date: 1811
"Her hazle eye, unfix'd and bright, / Dazzles with ever-changing light, / Like flames toss'd by the wind; / Now swimming in quick-passing sadness, / Now laughing in her soul's pure gladness, / The mirror of her mind"
preview | full record— Mitford, Mary Russell (1787-1855)
Date: 1812
The realms of mind are ruled by shades
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1812
Fancy may be kindled
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1814
A "ripening mind" may be "fitted for a throne"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
Shakespeare, "born for British minds alone, / To them has Fancy's boundless empire shewn"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
Byron's "powerful voice, with varying tone, / Makes all the empire of the mind thine own"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
The Muse may "wave the gloomy Sceptic's ebon wand" and bound "our cloudy view with endless night; / Like Polyphemus with destructive might, / Revenging thus thy loss of mental sight"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
"Not all the woes of guilty souls combined, / Exceed thy 'leafless desart of the mind'"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
Scott may "Usurp the empire of the wilder'd mind, / And leave the forms of modern life behind"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
Potent rulers of opinion may rule "the empire of the willing heart"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)