Date: 1733, 1748
"Still let my faithful Memory impart, / And deep engrave it on my grateful heart, / How just, and good, and excellent Thou art."
preview | full record— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)
Date: 1754
A mind may be cast in a different mould
preview | full record— Clark [née Lewis], Esther (bap. 1716, d. 1794)
Date: 1766
"Ev'n this my friend, its well known image here / Remains engraven by the hand of love: / My beating heart confirms it for the same."
preview | full record— Williams, Anna (1708-1783)
Date: 1781, 1810
"Triumphant love, with still superior art, / Engraves their wonders on the Painter's heart."
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1786
"Her pencil sickening Fancy throws away, / And weary Hope reclines upon the tomb."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1789
"Thee Queen of Shadows! [Fancy]--shall I still invoke, / Still love the scenes thy sportive pencil drew, / When on mine eyes the early radiance broke / Which shew'd the beauteous, rather than the true!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1789
"Ah! hide for ever from my sight / The faithless flatterer Hope--whose pencil, gay, / Portrays some vision of delight, / Then bids the fairy tablet fade away; / While in dire contrast, to mine eyes / Thy phantoms, yet more hideous, rise, / And Memory draws, from Pleasure's wither'd flower, / Corr...
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1793
"[Y]et, half repentant now / Her headlong haste, she wishes she had staid / To die with those affrighted Fancy paints / The lawless soldiers' victims."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1794
Busy thought may paint "a thousand horrors"
preview | full record— Cave [later Winscom], Jane (c.1754-1813)