Date: 1808
"No gossip in my faithful heart / Shall ever occupy her room"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"Yet adamantine souls, and iron forms, / Hard brac'd by toil, and nurst among the storms, / Whom pleasure ne'er could melt, or terror freeze, / Can trace undaunted even such scenes as these"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"'But when the Bard by Arun's stream / Indulg'd each sadly tender theme, / And with enchantment wild combin'd / The countless "shadowy tribes of mind;'"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"With active force the comprehensive mind / Breaks custom's chains and prejudice's ties, / And wide in sportive curves unbounded flies."
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"Draw close those ties, so fine and yet so strong, / That gently lead the willing soul along, / Nor crush beneath oppression's iron rod / The kindred image of the parent God; / Nor think that rigour's galling chains can bind / The native force of the superior mind."
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
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"
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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)