Date: 1791
"Speak, can the ghost of Conscience haunt thy mind?"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1791, 1806
To Shakespeare's illumined sight was consigned "The rugged cavern of the Murd'rer's breast"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1791
"and my mother's mind / In doubtful balance hangs, if still with me / An inmate, she shall manage my concerns, / Attentive only to her absent Lord / And her own good report"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791, 1806
"Oh! horrid Night! / Thou prying Monitor confest! / Whose key unlocks the human breast, / And bares each avenue to mental sight!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1789, 1791, 1799
"Oft tho' thy genius, Darwin! amply fraught / With native wealth, explore new worlds of mind; / Whence the bright ores of drossless wisdom brought, / Stampt by the Muse's hand, enrich mankind"
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: 1792
"Thrice happy she, condemned to move / Beneath the servile weight, / Whose thoughts ne'er soar one inch above / The standard of her fate"
preview | full record— Taylor, Ellen (fl. 1792)
Date: 1792
Marks of mind are "Stamp'd on each countenance"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1792 [1794]
A wife chosen from "the coarse, what groveling brood" will be in thought "barren and in speech how rude"
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1792
"Howe'er on classic grounds they take defence; / Howe'er adroit their nostrums they dispense; / Impartially let loss and gain be tried, / And soon the balance Reason will decide."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1792
Rude signs may be expressive of "moral sense / Stamp'd on each heart"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)