Date: 1791, 1806
"Oh! horrid Night! / Thou prying Monitor confest! / Whose key unlocks the human breast, / And bares each avenue to mental sight!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1792
A passion may burst "from the grave, in evil hour" and hasten to its prey with fiercer pow'r and "vulture-like, with appetite increas'd" riot on the undiminish'd feast
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1792, 1810
"But would you (as Ithuriel, with his spear, / Struck the dire toad, at Eve's invaded ear) / Probe, with your searching pen, the mind's disease?"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1792, 1810
"'Oh! London! what calamities I see, / 'In my mind's eye," whene'er I think on thee!"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1793, 1806
The "eye of Reason" may "cloudless shine"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1796
"By force the thirst of weakly sense is cloyed / Silent attend the frown, the gaze, the smile, / To grasp far objects with incessant toil; / So play life's springs with energy, and try / The unceasing thirst of knowledge to supply."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1796
"Thus Books are intellectual Aliment drest / For every appetite of every guest."
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: 1796
"Or let two words, in my mind's eye, / Unite more close, than You, and I."
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: w. September 1794, 1797
"Wit, that no suffering could impair, / Was thine, and thine whose mental powers / Of force to chase the fiends that tear / From Fancy's hands her budding flowers."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1797
"Grief, the most fatal of the heart's diseases, / Soon teaches, who it fastens on, to die."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)