Date: 1793
"Milton had perhaps wandered in the fields of fancy, and consoled his blindness with listening to the voice of his nation, that was to have resounded with his name."
preview | full record— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)
Date: 1795
"Even there the passions reign; but they rove through the mind like murmuring, winds through barren and gloomy regions."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: February 2, 1796
"Her head's like the island, folks tell on, / Which nothing but monkies can dwell on"
preview | full record— Hoare, Prince (1755-1834)
Date: 1797
"Light of the world, whose cheering ray / Illumes the realms of mind"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)