Date: 1752, performed 1772
"I flatter'd my poor soul that all its Fears / Were Grief's distemper'd coinage, that my Love / Rais'd causeless apprehensions, and at length / Edgar would quite forgive."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1759, performed 1776
"(If shapes like his be but the fancy's coinage)"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1790
"Yet what infuses his mind unstain'd and pure? / Nurtur'd in venal, sycophantic schools-- / Eras'd each sterling virtue of the soul-- / Debas'd--new coin'd in flattery's servile mint, / He may become a pander to a prince."
preview | full record— Warren, Mercy Otis (1728-1814)