Date: 1797
"'If you are under any promise of secresy,' interrupted Vivaldi, 'I forbid you to tell this wonderful tale, which, however, seems somewhat too big to rest within your brain.'"
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1797
"Having said this, I am prepared to meet whatever suffering you shall inflict upon me; but be assured, that my own voice never shall sanction the evils to which I may be subjected, and that the immortal love of justice, which fills all my heart, will sustain my courage no less powerfully than the...
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1798
"O reader! had you in your mind / Such stores as silent thought can bring."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1799
"Nor seldom Indolence these lawns among / Fixes her turf-built seat; and wears the garb / Of deep philosophy, and museful sits, / In dreamy twilight of the vacant mind, / Soothed by the whispering shade; for soothing soft / The shades; and vistas lengthening into air, / With moonbeam rainbows ti...
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)