Date: 1805
"There, as those cells [Satan's myrmidons] empty found / Where brains in wiser pates abound, / They fill'd them with mephitic gas / From hell, which downward strove to pass, / But, gaining exit through the throat, / By leave of porter, Epiglott, / Vented itself in fustian storm / Rhetorical."
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1810
"And yet, my heart, within thy silent cell / Dwells a fair image which is lovelier still."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1814
"The solemn procession, headed by Baddely, of tea-board, urn, and cake-bearers, made its appearance, and delivered her from a grievous imprisonment of body and mind."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1815?
"Strait to her chamber, yester-eve, / Had she retreated from the cave, / And, wildering in a maze of thought, / Fear'd every hour with danger fraught"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1819
"'For none could more by outward signs express / 'What wise men lock within the mind's recess."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)