Date: 1793, 1797
"Then, while each hideous image to his mind, / Rises terrific, o'er a bleeding corse / Stumbling he falls."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1803
"He stammers,--instantaneously is drawn / A bordered piece of inspiration-lawn, / Which being thrice unto his nose applied, / Into his pineal gland the vapours glide; / And now again we hear the doctor roar / On subjects he dissected thrice before."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1803
"Though, when black melancholy damps my joys, / I call them nature's trifles, airy toys; / Yet when the goddess Reason guides the strain, / I think them, what they are, a heavenly train."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)