Date: 1800
"So the schemes / Rais'd by fond Hope in youth's unclouded morn, / While sanguine youth enjoys delusive dreams, / Experience withers; till scarce one remains / Flattering the languid heart, where only Reason reigns!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1800
There may be revolutions in the mind
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1803
"[W]rithing Mania sits on Reason's throne, /Or Melancholy marks it for her own"
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: 1803
"Reason's empire o'er the world presides, / And man from brute, and man from man divides"
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)