Date: 1766
"Till now detain'd / In cruel bonds, his thoughts alone were free, / And these have never stray'd from his Constantia."
preview | full record— Williams, Anna (1708-1783)
Date: 1766
"Should you but discompose the tide, / On which Ideas wont to ride, / Ferment it with a yeasty Storm, / Or with high Floods of Wine deform."
preview | full record— Lloyd, Evan (1734-1776)
Date: 1766
"Wisdom, which men with so much pain, / With so much weariness attain, / May in a little moment quit, / And abdicate the throne of Wit, / And leave, a vacant seat, the brain, / For Folly to usurp and reign."
preview | full record— Lloyd, Evan (1734-1776)
Date: 1767
"Shun, shun the Wretch, and case your Heart in Steel, / Lose not a Thought on those who cannot feel;"
preview | full record— Lloyd, Evan (1734-1776)
Date: 1773
A panting heart may be chilled by "hideous forms"
preview | full record— Penny [née Hughes, formerly Christian], Anne (bap. 1729, d. 1780/4)
Date: 1773
The mind may be "poured forth"
preview | full record— Penny [née Hughes, formerly Christian], Anne (bap. 1729, d. 1780/4)
Date: 1794
Busy thought may paint "a thousand horrors"
preview | full record— Cave [later Winscom], Jane (c.1754-1813)
Date: 1794
"Not one short month for ten revolving years, / But pain within my frame its sceptre rears!"
preview | full record— Cave [later Winscom], Jane (c.1754-1813)