Date: 1785
A ruined mind may be "A blank of Nature, vanish'd every thought / That Nature, Reason, that Experience taught."
preview | full record— Lovibond, Edward (bap. 1723, d. 1775)
Date: 1785
Hearts may scarce yield to impression while "The daughter's can soften and melt"
preview | full record— Lovibond, Edward (bap. 1723, d. 1775)
Date: 1788
"Well-tutor'd Learning, from his books / Dismiss'd with grave, not haughty looks, / Their order on his shelves exact, / Not more harmonious or compact / Than that, to which he keeps confined / The various treasures of his mind."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1788
"The parson frank'd their souls to kingdom-come!"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
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)