Date: 1786
"A festive glass the drooping mind requires, / His far-off phiz keen Fancy's eye descries"
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Date: 1787
"Wisdom unseals charm'd Reason's drowsy eyes."
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"And life's first moment stamp'd my soul immortal."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1787
"Whate'er pursuits the attentive mind employ / Must mark our manners with a strong alloy"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"Love was ever the touchstone to try the fine mind, / Sterling Virtue 'twill never debase; / No alloy can we know, from a passion refin'd,"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1787
"The soft parental rapture, fond embrace, / Kind gratulation, smile of filial love, / All form a deep impression"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1787
"Still wilt thou hang upon my joyless soul / That clasps thy dear impression"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1787
"The sons of Rome ne'er felt the soft control / Of milky kindness stealing o'er the soul, / Nor did their nerves to pleasure's touch awake / Of gentler thoughts the mild impression take;"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"The shield, an emblem of thy soul, displays / Truth, equity and wisdom, hand in hand."
preview | full record— Glover, Richard (1712-1785)
Date: 1787
"Virtue sleeps / While all the finest faculties of mind / Rust, like the iron long unus'd"
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