Date: 1821
"A godlike mind soars forth, in its delight / Making earth bare and veiling heaven, and when / It sinks, the swarms that dimmed or shared its light / Leave to its kindred lamps the spirit's awful night."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1822
"He rose / Disturbed and frowning, for tumultuous thoughts / Crowded like night upon his heart"
preview | full record— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)
Date: 1823
"This was the thought--the sentiment--the bright solitary star of your lives,--ye mild and happy pair--which cheered you in the night of intellect, and in the obscurity of your station!"
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: 1831
"It is therefore in this way that a preceptor, by undertaking to enlighten the mind of his pupil, enlightens his own."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
Cowley "was a most amiable man; and the loveliness of his mind shines out in his productions"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)