Date: April 1806
"Come, peace of mind, delightful guest! / Oh, come, and make thy downy nest / Once more on his sad heart!"
preview | full record— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)
Date: 1806
"On a shelf, / (Yclept a mantle-piece) a phial stands, / Half fill'd with potent spirits!--haunt the poet's restless brain, / And fill his mind with fancies whimsical."
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1806
The fancy may be sick (and borne on a grey goose wing to immortal fame)
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1791, 1806
"As Reason, fairest daughter of the skies, / Explor'd the vale, where mortal mis'ry lies; / Led on by fortitude, with eye serene, / She mark'd each object of the varying scene."
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1806
"Go forth, ye glorious conquerors of the mind"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1797, 1806
"While shadows, blanks to reason's orb, / In dread succession haunt the brain"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1791, 1806
"Then spare, thou sweet Urchin, thou soother of pain, / Oh! spare the soft picture engrav'd on my heart; / As a record of Love let it ever remain; / My bosom thy tablet--thy pencil a dart."
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1806
"'Now on the bosom of the list'ning Youth / 'Impress, engrave the sacred form of Truth"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1806
"Where is the stamp which marks th' immortal soul, / And places thee above the growling brute?"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1806
One may possess a great deal of spirit and "sterling merit"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)