Date: 1762
"Thy griefs pent up, have prey'd upon thy heart."
preview | full record— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)
Date: 1773
"Fancy no more on airy wings shall rise, / We now must scold the maids, and make the pies."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1779
"Not Man, but thriftless Nature, be accused, / Who to seductions left our minds a prey-- / --Nay more, who doth herself ensnare us; / Hath hung us round with senses exquisite, / Hath planted in our hearts resistless passions, / The first to weaken, and the last to war / On poor, defenceless, nake...
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"My mind, with wild contending passions torn, / Now, like a hart by worrying dogs forsook, / Sinks into apathy."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"Mean time, Editha send; some secret grief / Preys on her mind, and fain I would relieve / Her bosom'd anguish."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1785
"I was surpriz'd, taken unawares, passion ran away with me like an unbroke horse: but I have got him under now; I can govern him with a twine of thread."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)