Date: 1816
"I stood / Among them, but not of them--in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could, / Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1820
"She stood: he pass'd, shut up in mysteries, / His mind wrapp'd like his mantle."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1828
"Come, gallants, the gay and the graceful, / With hearts like the light plumes ye wear; / Eyes all but divine light our revel, / Like the stars in whose beauty they share."
preview | full record— Landon, Laetitia Elizabeth [L.E.L.] (1802-1838)
Date: 1831
In poetry we are "privileged occasionally to cast away the slough and exuviæ of the body from incumbering and dishonouring us, even as Ulysses passed over his threshold, stripped of the rags that had obscured him, while Minerva enlarged his frame, and gave loftiness to his stature, a...
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
"Familiar as [Shakespeare] was with the evanescent touches of mind en dishabille, and in its innermost feelings, he could not sustain the tone of a character, penetrated with a divine enthusiasm, or fervently devoted to a generous cause, though this is truly within the compass of our nature."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)