Date: 1796
"WIT on all points is out of season, / It's use is to embroider reason."
preview | full record— Courtenay, John Lees (1775?-1794)
Date: 1796
"Good sense like cloth, the ground-work place, / And then sow on your Wit and lace."
preview | full record— Courtenay, John Lees (1775?-1794)
Date: 1797
"Thus on the golden thread that Fancy weaves / Buoyant, as Hope's illusive flattery breathes, / The young and visionary Poet leaves / Life's dull realities, while sevenfold wreaths / Of rainbow light around his head revolve."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)