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)
Date: 1793, 1806
The "eye of Reason" may "cloudless shine"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1793, 1806
"And Truth's white bosom stampt with falsehood's stain!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1793
"For what is sleep, but temporary death; / Sealing up all the windows of the soul, / And binding ev'ry thought in torpid chains?"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1793, 1806
"'Twas Instinct rushing thro' her beating breast! / Instinct, the lamp divine that lights the soul"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)