Date: 1703
"Was she old and deform'd, / Her Wit and her Air, / Would conquer more Hearts, / Than the Young and the Fair."
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)
Date: 1703
"Those Charms are more noble, / The Lovely and Kind / May vanquish the Body, / She conquers the Mind."
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)
Date: 1703
"At length my reconcil'd and conquer'd Heart, / When 'twas almost too late own'd thy Desert, / And wishes thou wast still, not that thou never wer't; / Wishes thee still that celebrated Day,/ I lately kept with sympathizing Joy."
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)
Date: 1703
"My Soul, with softning Airs, prepar'd by Fate, / Took the Impression of that charming Face,"
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)
Date: 1762
Reason may her throne forsake "To stoop to Cupid's laws"
preview | full record— Jemmat [née Yeo], Catherine (bap. 1714, d. 1766?)
Date: 1794
"Each man of sense, you'll find disdain / To drag coquetry's galling chain. / 'Tis prudence, truth, good sense, my dear, / That makes the lamp of love burn clear; / These are the silken cords, that bind / The Lover's, and the Husband's mind."
preview | full record— Pointon, Priscilla [AKA Priscilla Pickering] (c. 1740-1801)
Date: 1799
"Nor seldom Indolence these lawns among / Fixes her turf-built seat; and wears the garb / Of deep philosophy, and museful sits, / In dreamy twilight of the vacant mind, / Soothed by the whispering shade; for soothing soft / The shades; and vistas lengthening into air, / With moonbeam rainbows ti...
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1825
"This hallowed day, in Hymen's golden bands / Which joined consenting hearts and willing hands."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: November 15, 2016
"He [Trump] has set the worst human impulses marching. But there are no clean slates in the unconscious."
preview | full record— Rose, Jacqueline (b. 1949)
Date: February 18, 2017
"'He lives inside his head, where he runs the same continuous loop of conflict with people he turns into enemies for the purposes of his psychodrama,' says Trump biographer Michael D'Antonio."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)