Date: 1766
"Ev'n this my friend, its well known image here / Remains engraven by the hand of love: / My beating heart confirms it for the same."
preview | full record— Williams, Anna (1708-1783)
Date: 1766
"Till now detain'd / In cruel bonds, his thoughts alone were free, / And these have never stray'd from his Constantia."
preview | full record— Williams, Anna (1708-1783)
Date: 1767
"A heart of oak, and breast of brass / Were his, who first presum'd on seas to pass, / And ever ventur'd to engage, / In a slight skiff, with ocean's desperate rage."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771); Horace (65 B.C. -8 B.C.)
Date: 1770
The master-passion may be concealed "but on great occasions,... It will break forth, and loudly tell the world / What fermentation often works the soul"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1770
"These objects banish care, they set us loose / From mean attachments, and compose our souls / For fine impressions, and for heavenly airs:"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1770
"Sylvia, if you persist to steel your heart, / Expect a mansion in that dire abode."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1770
"Mean while, the duties of a man revolve, / And steel thy bosom with the firm resolve"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1770
"Destructive eyes, false mirrors of the heart! / I, to my sorrow know the lies you've told me."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1770
"I could not look upon his mangled corse: / I saw his mangled corse in my mind's eye."
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Date: 1775
"How like a wanton lamb that careless play'd, / The shepherd and the fold forgotten quite, / My vagrant soul, in search of vain delight, / Many long years from her true Shepherd stray'd!"
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)