Date: 1785
"'Twixt shame and passion floats the struggling mind, / To Virtue now, and now to vice inclin'd, / This frowns refusal, that persuades to yield, / Till Reason falls, and Passion takes the field."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1790
"A variety of strong and contending emotions struggled at her breast, and suppressed the power of utterance."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)