Date: April 20, 1796
"Oh, farewell! / I cannot coin in words my soul's soft meaning!"
preview | full record— Lee, Sophia (bap. 1750, d. 1824)
Date: 1796
"While his fancy coined these ideas, he paced his cell with a disordered air."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1797
"To come a little closer to the point, we strongly suspect the fancy's coinage in this affair, and that he is, bona fide, the offspring of a Bristol brain, instead of a province of Persia."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1798
"Words without correspondent ideas are worse than useless, they are counterfeit coin, which imposes upon the ignorant and unwary; but words, which really represent ideas, are not only of current use, but of sterling value; they not only shew our present store, but they increase our wealth by keep...
preview | full record— Edgeworth, Maria
Date: 1798
"Admitting the justice of these assertions, we see that memory to great men is but a subordinate servant, a treasurer who receives, and is expected to keep faithfully whatever is committed to his care; and not only to preserve faithfully all deposits, but to produce them at the moment they are wa...
preview | full record— Edgeworth, Maria
Date: 1799
"The debt that lies on your heart, pay in the heart's coin, when you please. At present I am in no want of money"
preview | full record— Hoare, Prince (1755-1834); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1802
"[H]e did boast he had made his fortune by the coinage of his own brain, by Radix Rheno, I did think he laid, by coining ready rhino"
preview | full record— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841)
Date: 1803
"But, wishing to enrich me more, to fill / My mind with treasure, led'st me far away / From city din to deep retreats, to banks / And streams Aonian, and, with free consent, / Didst place me happy at Apollo's side."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1805
"Your Worth and Talents will unfold, / Richer than Needlework of Gold; / The native treasures of the soul, / True--as the Needle to the Pole."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1805
"Still is it the false coinage of my fears?"
preview | full record— Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)