Date: 1785-7, 1791, 1792
"Yet are there some who think (but what a shame!) / Poor people's souls like pence of Birmingham, / Adulterated brass--base stuff--abhorr'd-- / That never can pass current with the Lord; / And think because of wealth they boast a store, / With ev'ry freedom they may treat the poor."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1787
"But let me give his m*****y a hint, / Fresh from my brain's prolific mint."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: w. 1788, 1810
"Thee, Bard morose, / Churlish amid thy fancy's golden stores, / Thee will I teach, censorious as thou art, / What is not Virtue."
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1792
"Could gold once give thee to my eager arms, / Lo, into guineas would I coin my heart;"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: w. 1776, 1793
"His pocket and his skull are brothers, / They thrive by borrowing from others; / I thank my stars, with heart sincere, / I was not born to be a Peer."
preview | full record— Burrell [née Raymond, later Clay], Sophia, Lady Burrell (1750-1802)