Date: 1776
"Long has the idea wandered through my mind--Long have I languished for that peaceful haven, in which this tempest-beaten bark can only anchor."
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Date: 1776
"Too much a slave to all the fond affections of the heart, love for my brother tempted me to hope that his society might sooth my griefs, and lull my cares to rest."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"A thousand wild vagaries now rushed into my troubled brain."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"I needed not to read it, the words were but too deeply engraved upon my heart."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"Can you, my once dear friend, without abhorrence, think of her who robbed you of a brother, and was the unhappy cause his pure and spotless soul was stained with blood?"
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Date: 1776
"he more approaching to the testimony of our senses every philosophical solution is, the more perhaps is it conformable to nature."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1777
"Stand to your guns! my hearts of oak, / Let not a word on board be spoke."
preview | full record— Thomas Carter (c. 1735, d. 1804)
Date: 1767, 1778
"To human frames these structures seem akin, / With aspect fair, while reason rules within."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1767, 1778
"To human frames these structures seem akin, / With aspect fair, while reason rules within."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1767, 1778
"Envy in courts and cottages will dwell, / Nay climb to heaven itself, tho' born in hell: / In every living bosom lurks this pest, / But reigns unrival'd in the human breast; / On reason's throne usurps a thorny part, / And plants a thousand daggers in the heart."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)