Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"And the mind's poor infirmities dash'd from their throne, / Forgetting the weakness that lives in their own."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"Like a beggar at law, whom no barrister blesses, / His mind lacks an agent to plead its distresses; / All his muscles rebel 'gainst judicious controul"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1789
"Thee Queen of Shadows! [Fancy]--shall I still invoke, / Still love the scenes thy sportive pencil drew, / When on mine eyes the early radiance broke / Which shew'd the beauteous, rather than the true!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1789
"Alas! these joys are mine in dreams alone, / When cruel Reason abdicates her throne!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)