Date: 1814
A "ripening mind" may be "fitted for a throne"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1891
"So those high orthodoxies came to be / Quick seeds in me of heterodox opinion, / And, ere I wist, my thoughts were all at sea, / And drifted, holden by no wise dominion."
preview | full record— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)