Date: 1785

"It is true, that I have the dear little babes of some particular friends more immediately in view; but my heart glows at the idea of smoothing the thorny paths of a thousand little innocents—of sparing the tears of helpless infants."

— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)

Date: 1785

"Authority may place a child in the path of learning; but pleasure only can entice him on; let us therefor endeavour to strew the entrance with flowers, which may induce him to proceed with alacrity."

— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)

Date: 1785

The dark soul may be enlightened

— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)

Date: 1785

"[T]he pair / Conspire to clear my dull, imprisoned sense, / And chase the mists which dimmed my visual beam."

— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)

Date: 1785

Mists may dim one's "visual beam"

— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)

Date: 1785

The soul's portals may be oped by "liberal converse" allowing "rude ideas" out

— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)

Date: 1785

The mind's powers may rust

— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)

Date: 1785

"But all expired, for want of powers to speak; / All perished in the mind as soon as born, / Erased more quick than cyphers on the shore, / O'er which cruel waves, unheedful roll."

— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)

Date: 1785

Ideas may be "erased more quick than cyphers on the shore" by cruel waves

— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)

Date: 1785

"Such rapture filled Lactilla's vacant soul."

— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)