Date: 1814
"[T]he soul's image to the view is brought / In the calm mirror of unruffled thought"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
"Reason's powers, by studious care refined, / In moral graces dress the chasten'd mind."
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
"Her steady lamp shall pour its guiding ray, / And shed on lowliest minds celestial day."
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
"Death reveals his bright associate Truth,/ (Whose rays the new-departed soul illume, / Like those eternal lamps that light the tomb,)"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1816
"Nor wide stretched lands, nor interposing deep, / Can check the progess of th’ unfetter’d soul."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1825
"One passion ruled despotic in her breast, / In every word, and look, and thought confest."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1825
The "searching mind" may make "keen glances"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1825
"What powers lie folded in thy curious frame,-- / Senses from objects locked, and mind from thought! "
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1825
The "ethereal mind" may be clouded
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1825
The mind may be sick and impatient
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)