Date: 1753
"Afflictions such as hers are prying, and lend those Eyes that read the Soul."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1755
"When Love's once united, no Tyrant shall part / Nor can time efface what is grav'd on my heart."
preview | full record— Mendez, Moses (1690 - c.1758)
Date: 1755
"Why did I not / Repent, while yet my Crimes were decibel! / Ere they had struck their Colours thro' my Soul, / As black as Night or Hell!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1761
"But now proceed; / Give me more names; these many I have wrote / Deep in the vengeful tablets of my heart."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1761
"Injurious woman, / Wou'd that men's thoughts were graven on their hearts!"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1762
"Had the proud exile read my heart, / He then must have appeas'd the woes I suffer'd, / He then had pardon'd, and thou might'st have sooth'd me."
preview | full record— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)
Date: 1779
"Come, come, Albina; / Though to a Lover you might wear this guise, / Of coy reserve, yet, to a Father's eye, / Your mind should now appear as legible / As in the days of prattling infancy."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"Why stand'st thou thus, with such exploring eyes, / As if thou'dst read the workings of my brain?"
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1785
"I own thy image is engraven on my heart."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Date: 1786
"But your humanity must ever be engraved on my heart."
preview | full record— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)