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Anna Vardill
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“Behold this ruin! 'Twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full! This narrow cell was Life's retreat; This place was Thought's mysterious seat! What beauteous pictures fill'd that spot, What dreams of pleasure, long forgot! Nor Love, nor Joy, nor Hope, nor Fear, Has left one trace, one record here.”
Anna Vardill (1781–1852) first seen 1816 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Appeared in The European Magazine, vol. 70 (November 1816), p. 457 (with signature "V"). Since said to have been found near a skeleton in the Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn, London. Falsely claimed for J. D. G…