Date: 1798
"But I'm a Bust with Heart of Steel, / That can nor Pain nor Pleasure feel."
preview | full record— Elizabeth [née Lady Elizabeth Berkeley], margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth [other married name Elizabeth Craven, Lady Craven] (1750-1828)
Date: 1794, 1796, 1797, rev. 1798
"Where'er they rov'd, young Fancy and the Muse / Wav'd high their mirror of a thousand hues."
preview | full record— Mathias, Thomas James (1753/4-1835)
Date: w. 1784, 1799
"Pleased she surveys her infant charge, / Beholds the mental powers enlarge, / And as the young ideas rise, / Directs their issues to the skies."
preview | full record— West, Jane (1758-1852)
Date: 1799
One may hie "From his own blank inanity"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1799
Events "'Together ta'en--they on my mind / 'No good impression leave behind."
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1799
"[Y]et much the Poet found, / To swell Imagination's golden store, / On Arno's bank"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1799
"E'en orcs and river-dragons felt / Their iron bosoms melt / With scorching heat"
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
Date: 1799
"And, indeed, there is so much truth in the remark, that till women shall be more reasonably educated, and till the native growth of their mind shall cease to be stinted and cramped, we have no juster ground for pronouncing that their understanding has already reached its highest attainable point...
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)