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Work title:
"Of Tragedy"
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Date: 1779
"There are, my Liege, who have with groundless jealousy / Poison'd Lord Edward's mind, and work'd on him / To yield to infamy his spotless Bride."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"My mind, with wild contending passions torn, / Now, like a hart by worrying dogs forsook, / Sinks into apathy."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"Banish'd--robb'd of my country, and my name; / Yet they have left a mind defies their vengeance-- / Which, though these limbs were lock'd in bolts of steel, / And darkness wrapt these precious founts of light, / Would rise superior to their bounded power, / And scorn alike their fetters, and the...
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"Such pensiveness oft follows, when the mind, / Surcharg'd with joy, hath yielded all her pow'rs / To the insidious guest."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"Mean time, Editha send; some secret grief / Preys on her mind, and fain I would relieve / Her bosom'd anguish."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"Darting like hidden sun-beams on my mind, / And make it drunk with bliss."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1789
"A different store his richer freight imparts-- / The gem of virtue, and the gold of hearts; / The social sense, the feelings of mankind, / And the large treasure of a godlike mind!"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1790
"Yet what infuses his mind unstain'd and pure? / Nurtur'd in venal, sycophantic schools-- / Eras'd each sterling virtue of the soul-- / Debas'd--new coin'd in flattery's servile mint, / He may become a pander to a prince."
preview | full record— Warren, Mercy Otis (1728-1814)
Date: 1792
Light may break in and great ideas may dawn upon the mind
preview | full record— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1792
"Curs'd lethargy of the soul! ... that chain'd my better judgement, cramp'd all my strength of mind--ruin'd all my prospects."
preview | full record— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)
