Date: 1792
"Beyond the woody Tamar, fancy trac'd; / And, as she spread the glowing tint, it seem'd / No fairy picture: for young hope reliev'd / With golden rays each figure fancy drew"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
"Had not a persecuting spirit steel'd / Their breasts to momentary pardon prone."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
"For oft, their due degrees / Abandon'd, one essential ev'n excludes / The rest; or argument, perhaps, usurps / The throne of pathos; or the passions, free / From previous forms, as great emergence calls, / Burst on a CATILINE's devoted head / Impetuous."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
"Around [Religion's] emerald throne / The passions tremble at her awful beck-- ' Her ministers as flaming fire,' to waft / Into the mortal bosom the pure spark / Æthereal, that refines our thought"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
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: 1793
"Amidst the lustful fires he walks: his feet become like brass, / His knees and thighs like silver, & his breast and head like gold."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1793
"Strike the flint of his heart on the steel / Of freedom"
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1793
"[Y]et, half repentant now / Her headlong haste, she wishes she had staid / To die with those affrighted Fancy paints / The lawless soldiers' victims."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1793, 1806
"Truth can derive no eminence from birth, / Rich in the proud supremacy of worth; / Its blest dominion vast and unconfin'd, / Its crown eternal, and its throne the mind!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1793, 1806
"Does Liberty with barbarous fetters bind / Her first-born hope, the freedom of the mind?"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)