Date: 1838
All the "eye doth meet is mist and crag" in "the world of thought and mental might"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1848
"It is often obscure, often half-told; for he who wrote it, in his clear seeing of the things beneath, may have been impatient of detailed interpretations; for if we choose to dwell upon it and trace it, it will lead us always securely back to that metropolis of the soul’s dominion from which we ...
preview | full record— Ruskin, John (1819-1900)
Date: 1850
"Caverns there were within my mind which sun / Could never penetrate, yet did there not / Want store of leafy arbours where the light / Might enter in at will."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"Imagination--here the Power so called / Through sad incompetence of human speech, / That awful Power rose from the mind's abyss / Like an unfathered vapour that enwraps, / At once, some lonely traveller"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"The immeasurable height / Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, / The stationary blasts of waterfalls, / And in the narrow rent at every turn / Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn, / The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky, / The rocks that muttered close upon our ears, / Black...
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"And, as the horizon of my mind enlarged, / Again I took the intellectual eye / For my instructor, studious more to see / Great truths, than touch and handle little ones."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"The relation discovered, must be something remote from all the common tracks and sheep-walks made in the mind."
preview | full record— Smith, Sydney (1771-1845)
Date: 1854
"What have you done, O father, what have you done, with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here!"
preview | full record— Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)