Date: 1794
Reason once fairer than the light [has now been] fould in Knowledges dark Prison house
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1794
"PETER taketh a Survey of the Furniture of their Heads."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1796
"John Bull, 'tis said, and 'tis most truly said, / Has evermore a windmill in his head: / Which still, as fashions, factions, fancies sway, / With every puff, is whiffled every way"
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: 1796
"Still, still my soul in memory's inmost cell, / Where images most dear, most sacred dwell, / With willing gratitude retains, reveres, / Thy faithful service to my weakest years!"
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: 1802
"Far other ruins henceforth be your care: /Search for the failing towers of human kind, / And save that noblest edifice, the mind"
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1803
"In thee each virtue found a pleasing cell, / Thy mind was honour, and thy soul divine"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1803
"Friends, while they honour Stanmore's fair outside, / The grateful feelings of my Heart divide, / And, filling up my Soul's respective cells, / Each in its warmest mansion ever dwells!"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1804
"Her Brain enlabyrinths the whole heaven of her bosom & loins / To put in act what her Heart wills"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: c. 1804-1811, 1818
"For every human heart has gates of brass & bars of adamant, / Which few dare unbar because dread Og & Anak guard the gates"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: c. 1804-1811, 1818
"Terrific! and each mortal brain is walld and moated round / Within"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)