Date: 1804, 1816
"Of ink has for ever a flood, / To blacken a bosom of snow!"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1805
Pity first stamp'd your story in my breast, and the impression is engrav'd for ever"
preview | full record— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841)
Date: 1806
"'Now on the bosom of the list'ning Youth / 'Impress, engrave the sacred form of Truth"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1811, 1812
In the "deep record of the Sibyl's leaves, / There no instruction the blank mind receives."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1813
"O Spirit! through the sense / By which thy inner nature was apprised / Of outward shows, vague dreams have rolled, / And varied reminiscences have waked / Tablets that never fade."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1814
"You should listen to me till you were tired, and advise me till you were tired still more; but it is impossible to put an hundredth part of my great mind on paper, so I will abstain altogether, and leave you to guess what you like.
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"But plant ideas like a printing-press; / Or, graven copper-plate, again to roll / The pristine stamp of proud Employer's Soul."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1817
One may "write the counsels of my heart" so "That they may be engrav'd on" another's heart
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817
"If I could rip up my heart and lay it at your feet, you would read engrav'd on it in capital letters your own adorable name"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)