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Date: 1779
"His mind / Knowledge illumines, and bright Virtue loves."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"Not Man, but thriftless Nature, be accused, / Who to seductions left our minds a prey-- / --Nay more, who doth herself ensnare us; / Hath hung us round with senses exquisite, / Hath planted in our hearts resistless passions, / The first to weaken, and the last to war / On poor, defenceless, nake...
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"Then steel your mind, to bear the story's horror."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"Those minds imbued by vice, with deepest stains, / Are often mask'd in forms almost divine-- / Deck'd forth in words, and looks, that Virtue's self / Might challenge for her own."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"Why stand'st thou thus, with such exploring eyes, / As if thou'dst read the workings of my brain?"
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"If right I read, your mind in balance hangs / 'Twixt the opposing principles of good / And ill."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"I fear not / Your anger, Lord!--nay, I will gladly die, / If, dying, on your mind I can impress / Just horror for the--"
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"There are, my Liege, who have with groundless jealousy / Poison'd Lord Edward's mind, and work'd on him / To yield to infamy his spotless Bride."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"My mind, with wild contending passions torn, / Now, like a hart by worrying dogs forsook, / Sinks into apathy."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"Banish'd--robb'd of my country, and my name; / Yet they have left a mind defies their vengeance-- / Which, though these limbs were lock'd in bolts of steel, / And darkness wrapt these precious founts of light, / Would rise superior to their bounded power, / And scorn alike their fetters, and the...
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
