Date: 1789, 1800
"Human Nature's his show-box--your friend, would you know him? / Pull the string, Ruling Passion--the picture will show him."
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Date: 1789
"Alas! these joys are mine in dreams alone, / When cruel Reason abdicates her throne!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1789, 1792
"The tops of these scarce veil'd the roots of those; / A winding court where wandering fancy walk'd / And to herself responsive Echo talk'd."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1790
Custom "wars with Wit for Empire o'er the mind / Fights to the last unknowing how to yield, / And inch by inch disputes the mental field"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1790
"The passions heated, reason strives in vain; / Her empire's lost, and the distracted soul / Becomes the sport of devils, wholly bent / To turn and wind it in a world of sin."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
"'Tis God's decree engrav'd upon the heart / To make us wait with patience, till he comes, / Undraws the curtain, and dispels the gloom, / And takes us to his bosom, and rewards / Our constancy and truth."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790, 1806
"Proud may he be who nobly acts his part, / Who boasts the empire of each subject's heart."
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1790
"Her sickly mind / Was ill at ease, though seated on the throne / of affluence and plenty."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
'While we converse together, and I feel / 'Secret correction from the bolt of truth / 'Shot home, my better soul in triumph rides, / Borne on the wings of reason to her throne."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
One may have two souls "which, like two mighty Kings, / 'Ever contending for the sov'reignty, / 'Stir up sedition and revolt within"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)