Date: 1789?
"Pale Fear, and all her haggard train, / That generate and nurture pain, / And each unwelcome mental guest, / Lay dormant in the human breast."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1789?
The "placid current" of the mind may be bestorm'd so that "th' ideal billows, raging, rise"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1789?
The placid current of the mind may be bestorm'd so that "th' ideal billows, raging, rise"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1789?
" 'Tis thine to sprinkle manna o'er the mind"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1789?
" 'Tis thine to renovate the fancy's springs"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1789?
"If conscious Genius stamp their chosen breast, / And on the forehead show her seal impressed."
preview | full record— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)
Date: 1789?
"Shorn of her beams and fetter'd by her thought, / The fallen nymph the caves of Sadness sought."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"Its anodyne powers [Miss George's singing] the sick'ning make cheery, / And tears off the chain from the mind of the weary."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1789
"Here lies her bracelet of flowers, exquisitely perfumed by the root of sĂura which had been spread on her bosom: it has fallen from her delicate wrist, and is become a new chain for my heart."
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"Like a snow-ball, the mind, fraught with peace in its prime, / Moves swiftly adown the steep shelvings of Time; / Accumulates filth from Society's sons, / And strengthens and hardens its coat as it runs; / Till habit on habit is negligent laid, / And the object appears motley, vile, and ill-made...
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)