Date: February 24, 1777; 1781
"She is the deceitful sorceress who now holds your husband's heart in bondage."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1782
"Oh! the joy / Of young ideas painted on the mind, / In the warm glowing colours fancy spreads / On objects not yet known, when all is new, / And all is lovely!"
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1782
"Why drive him from my presence? he might now / Raise my sunk soul, and my benighted mind / Enlighten with religion's cheering ray."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1782
"Where are those cunning men, / Who boast, by chosen sounds, and measur'd sweetness, / To set the busy spirits in a flame, / And cool them at their will? who know the art / To call the hidden pow'rs of numbers forth, / And make that pliant instrument, the mind, / Yield to the pow'rful sympathy of...
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1782
"Proceed, proceed, thrice venerable sage! / Enlighten my dark mind with this new ray, / This dawning of salvation!"
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1782
"Wisdom, blest beam! / The brightness of the everlasting light! / The spotlesss mirror of the pow'r of GOD! / The reflex image of th' all-perfect mind!"
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1782
"Perish the barb'rous maxims of the East, / Which basely wou'd enslave the free-born mind, / And plunder it of the best gift of Heav'n, / Its liberty!"
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1782
"Have you shewn a jewel / Out of the cabinet of your rich mind / To lock it up again?"
preview | full record— Dudley, Sir Henry Bate (1745-1824)
Date: 1783
"To work, my hearts of oak, to work; here the sun is half an hour high, and not a stroke struck yet."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1783
"I tremble at the impression this lovely girl has made upon my heart."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)