Date: 1775
"What numbers censure, but how few judge right, / On subjects, which demand the soul's keen sight"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1805
"Or, when deserted by the Nine, / Forc'd to elaborate the line, / To labour more, yet less to please, / In the Mind's anguish or disease."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1805
"When you, my Friend, in lucky hour, / Bestow'd the sight-relieving power; / A boon as useful as 'tis kind-- / Yet had no Eye but of the mind-- / Had I been deaf, and blind, and dumb, / For half a century to come, / That Eye, in vision bright and clear, / Would view your worth, and ...
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)