Date: 1733
Base usurpers of the soul may be gone, "and Reason long depos'd regains her Throne"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
Reason's "clear Mirror" can reflect the past actions and represent passions
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1734
"Loosed from its bonds my spirit fled away, / And left behind its moving tent of clay."
preview | full record— Adam [Adams], Jean (1710-1765)
Date: 1734
"Aloft it soars through fields of painted air, / Which Fancy's pencil could not paint too fair."
preview | full record— Adam [Adams], Jean (1710-1765)
Date: 1734, 1735
"Since you to win my Heart have deign'd, / Quit not the Conquest you have gain'd."
preview | full record— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)
Date: 1734, 1735
"Their dire Effects the Wretched feel: / Thy Waters turn the Heart to Steel."
preview | full record— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)
Date: 1734, 1735
"The Mind, in peaceful Solitude, has Room / To range in Thought, and ramble far from home."
preview | full record— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)
Date: 1734
"No; only he, who gave the blind their Sight, / Can fix interiour Eyes on heavenly Light"
preview | full record— Adam [Adams], Jean (1710-1765)
Date: [1731?] 1734
"Yet we have Reason, to supply / What nature did to man deny: / Weak viceroy! Who thy power will own, / When Custom has usurped thy throne?"
preview | full record— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)
Date: w. before June 1735?
"Let vows or benefits the vulgar bind, / Such ties can never chain th' intrepid mind."
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)