Date: 1820
"How to entangle, trammel up and snare / Your soul in mine, and labyrinth you there / Like the hid scent in an unbudded rose?"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: August 31, 1837
"A strange process too, this, by which experience is converted into thought, as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin."
preview | full record— Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Date: 1860
"Certain seeds which are required to find a nidus for themselves under unfavourable circumstances have been supplied by nature with an apparatus of hooks, so that they will get a hold on very unreceptive surfaces. The spiritual seed which had been scattered over Mr Tulliver had apparently been de...
preview | full record— Eliot, George (1819-1880)