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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: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"She can conquer a heart--that she wants sense to keep."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"For spells may be said to exist in that tone, / Whose graces can conquer all hearts--but her own."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)