Date: 1832
"Yet distant countries / Not then, as now, communication held / By beaten tracks, and all the luxuries / Of easy transit, while the missive charge / Of the pen's register'd mirror of the mind / Was slow and interrupted"
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Date: 1838
The conquer'd mind may waste in slow disease
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1838
" But hope rose gently in the mother's breast; / For well she knew that neither grief nor joy / Pain'd without hope, or pleased without alloy"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)