Date: 1778, 1779
"Hasten, then, my love, to bless me with thy presence, and to receive the blessings with which my fond heart overflows!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778
"Renown'd ARCADIA, fam'd by Grecian bards, / In fancy's mirror strikes th' enraptur'd eye; / The pastures green replete with lowing herds, / Where brousing flocks, and careless shepherds lie."
preview | full record— Graham, Charles (1750 ca.-1796 fl.)
Date: 1778, 1804
"There is some kind and courtly sprite / That o'er the realm of Fancy reigns."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1778, 1804
"But when that seal is first imprest, / When the young heart its pain shall try, / From the soft, yielding, trembling breast, / Oft seems the startled soul to fly."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1778, 1804
"The stranger, Reason, cross'd her way."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1778
"Do you think the public opinion, his various doubts of himself, and of her, the pride of his family, and the loud claims of avarice, his ruling passion 'till now, won't prove near an equipoise to his love?"
preview | full record— Foote, Samuel (1720-1777)
Date: 1778, 1788
"Thy tragic pencil, Aristides, caught / Each varied feeling, and each tender thought; / While moral virtue sanctified thy art, / And passion gave it empire o'er the heart."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1779
"Fierce passions discompose the mind, as tempests vex the sea"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1779
Jesus may "inhabitest the humble mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1779
"Hope delayed fatigues the mind, / And drinks the spirits up"
preview | full record— Newton, John (1725-1807)