Date: 1803
"But, wishing to enrich me more, to fill / My mind with treasure, led'st me far away / From city din to deep retreats, to banks / And streams Aonian, and, with free consent, / Didst place me happy at Apollo's side."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"Thoughts, like Churl's corn, in chamber'd stores entomb'd, / Devour'd by vermin, or, decay, consum'd; / Whose fruits might food, or opulence, afford; / Enrich the Rich, or bless the poor Man's board."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1817
"When some bright thought has darted through my brain: / Through all that day I've felt a greater pleasure / Than if I'd brought to light a hidden treasure."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1818
"I knew, I knew / There was a place untenanted in it: / In that same void white Chastity shall sit, / And monitor me nightly to lone slumber"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: December 27, 1823
"Now in filling my mind with them [ideas and facts], and in warming and animating me, you would, I doubt not, do me great good. And I am one of those substances, like sealing wax and other electric bodies, which require to be warmed in order to possess the faculty of attracting objects, of coveri...
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Date: 1831
Anaxarchus when "ordered by Nicocreon, tyrant of Salamis, to be pounded in a mortar [...] in contempt of his mortal sufferings, exclaimed, 'Beat on, tyrant! thou dost but strike upon the case of Anaxarchus; thou canst not touch the man himself'"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
"The mind is so infinitely superior in character to this case of flesh that incloses it, that he cannot persuade himself that it and the body perish together"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
"They skim away from one flower in the parterre of literature to another, like the bee, without, like the bee, gathering sweetness from each, to increase the public stock, and enrich the magazine of thought."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1838
"Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, / And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"His language has a sweet and majestic rhythm, which satisfies the sense, no less than the almost superhuman wisdom of his philosophy satisfies the intellect; it is a strain which distends, and then bursts the circumference of the reader's mind, and pours itself forth together with it into the un...
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)