Date: 1814
Patriots of old saw "In the fair mirror of each mighty mind / Each other's worth and talent"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
"The Critic, too, with wit and taste refined, / Holds up the mirror that reflects the mind;"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
"[T]he soul's image to the view is brought / In the calm mirror of unruffled thought"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
"Reason's powers, by studious care refined, / In moral graces dress the chasten'd mind."
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
"Her steady lamp shall pour its guiding ray, / And shed on lowliest minds celestial day."
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
"Death reveals his bright associate Truth,/ (Whose rays the new-departed soul illume, / Like those eternal lamps that light the tomb,)"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1859
" Not all this world's gay hopes, nor present charms, / Nor parents tears, nor a fond husband's arms, / Could stamp the least impression on her mind, / Or fix to earth a soul for heav'n design'd."
preview | full record— Skinner, Rev. John (1721-1807)
Date: 1859
"(For sure thy sire had not a heart of steel)"
preview | full record— Skinner, Rev. John (1721-1807)
Date: 1869
One's immortal deeds may be "Engrav'd ... / On ev'ry heart in this braid land"
preview | full record— Oliphant, Carolina, Lady Nairne (1766-1845)
Date: 1869
On a tree's "fair stem were mony names, which now nae mair I see, / But they're engraven on my heart--forgot they ne'er can be!"
preview | full record— Oliphant, Carolina, Lady Nairne (1766-1845)