Date: 1792
"In this pause of intellect; this deliquium of the soul, an enthusiastic sensation of pleasure overspreads it, previous to any examination by the rules of art."
preview | full record— Gilpin, William (1724-1804)
Date: 1792
"The leading ideas must be fixed on the spot: if left to the memory, they soon evaporate."
preview | full record— Gilpin, William (1724-1804)
Date: 1793
"The most palpable of all classes of knowledge is that I am, personally considered, but an atom in the ocean of mind."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1794
"As those which contribute to circulate the blood, and to perform the various secretions; as well as the associate tribes and trains of ideas, which contribute to furnish the perpetual streams of our dreaming imaginations."
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: 1796
"Leonella was not inflexible; the ardour of his sighs melted her heart, and she soon consented to make him the happiest of mankind."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1797
The gently-murmuring tide may reflect each reflection kind and be "A faithful mirror of the mind"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1797
"Dwell upon this affecting scene, till it has excited your pity; and this pity, while it melts the mind to Christian love, shall insensibly produce a temper of habitual sympathy and softness."
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Date: w. 1789, 1798, 1800
"Oh glide, fair stream! for ever so; / Thy quiet soul on all bestowing, / 'Till all our minds for ever flow, / As thy deep waters now are flowing"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1800
"The mind that labours for a cure works ill / By feeding its own grief; wasting away / Like boiling waters in an useless struggle"
preview | full record— Bidlake, John (1755-1814)
Date: October 4, 1802
"I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)