Date: 1774
"For hell is center'd in my breast, / There still its hottest fervours burn"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1776
Oblivion may throw "Her dark blank shades" o'er your mind
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1789, 1800
"Human Nature's his show-box--your friend, would you know him? / Pull the string, Ruling Passion--the picture will show him."
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Date: 1790
"There is a midnight in the breast / No morn shall ever cheer."
preview | full record— Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)
Date: 1793
"Flit, Galloway, and find / Some narrow, dirty, dungeon cave, / The picture of thy mind"
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Date: 1794
" And now these Dæmons of the captive mind / Him to the drery Cave of Discontent resignd"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1799
In Fancy's "filial train," inspiration rides foremost and "Myriads of spruce ideas crowd the rear."
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1803
The muse "beams a visionary day: / Bright as the magic torch she early gave / To light thy ven'trous way, through fancy's secret cave."
preview | full record— Hunter [née Home], Anne (1742-1821)
Date: 1808
"With active force the comprehensive mind / Breaks custom's chains and prejudice's ties, / And wide in sportive curves unbounded flies."
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1809, 1812
One may "leave the friends of youthful years, / And mould [his] heart anew, to take the stamp / Of foreign friendships, in a foreign land"
preview | full record— Graham, James (1765-1811)