Date: 1814
Shakespeare, "born for British minds alone, / To them has Fancy's boundless empire shewn"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
Byron's "powerful voice, with varying tone, / Makes all the empire of the mind thine own"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
Scott may "Usurp the empire of the wilder'd mind, / And leave the forms of modern life behind"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
Potent rulers of opinion may rule "the empire of the willing heart"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
"The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient--at others, so bewildered and so weak--and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond controul!"
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1825
"One passion ruled despotic in her breast, / In every word, and look, and thought confest."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1825
"Thus, when the fervid Passions cool, / And Judgement, late, begins to rule; / When Reason mounts her throne serene, / And social Friendship gilds the scene; / When man, of ripened powers possest, / Broods o'er the treasures of his breast; / Exults, in conscious worth elate, / Lord of himself--al...
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)