Date: 1794
"How thoughts to thoughts are link'd with viewless chains, / Tribes leading tribes, and trains pursuing trains."
preview | full record— Bilsborrow, Dewhurst (fl. 1794)
Date: 1794
"With shadowy trident how Volition guides, / Surge after surge, his intellectual tides; / Or, Queen of Sleep, Imagination roves / With frantic Sorrows, or delirious Loves."
preview | full record— Bilsborrow, Dewhurst (fl. 1794)
Date: 1794
"Each man of sense, you'll find disdain / To drag coquetry's galling chain. / 'Tis prudence, truth, good sense, my dear, / That makes the lamp of love burn clear; / These are the silken cords, that bind / The Lover's, and the Husband's mind."
preview | full record— Pointon, Priscilla [AKA Priscilla Pickering] (c. 1740-1801)
Date: 1794
"Bid your minds then sit calmly on their thrones, amidst the hurly burly of critical attacks."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1794
"Not one short month for ten revolving years, / But pain within my frame its sceptre rears!"
preview | full record— Cave [later Winscom], Jane (c.1754-1813)
Date: 1794
The mists of faction may pour around one's head
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1795
A "ray of sacred light" may dart the mind of the blind
preview | full record— Cristal, Anne Batten (b. c.1768)
Date: 1795
Strong ideas may be "rooted" in the brain
preview | full record— Cristal, Anne Batten (b. c.1768)
Date: 1795
One may have "The throne of Virtue in [his] steadfast heart"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1795
"Like souls unborn and unequipp'd, / A blank, of many a passion stripp'd."
preview | full record— Stevenson, John Hall (1717-1785)