Date: 1789?
"Pale Fear, and all her haggard train, / That generate and nurture pain, / And each unwelcome mental guest, / Lay dormant in the human breast."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1790, 1794, 1795, 1818, 1827
"Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1791
"But in thy breast a mind inhabits, proof / Against all charms."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
"Come then, my soul, be this thy guest, / And leave to knaves and fools the rest."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
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: w. 1794, 1797
"'Tis only those of purer clay / 'From sensual dross refined, / 'In whom the passions pleas'd obey / 'The God within the mind, / 'Who share my delegated aid, / 'Through Wisdom's golden mean convey'd / 'From the first source of sov'reign good."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: February, 1798
"And what (I said) tho' blasphemy's loud scream / With that sweet music of deliv'rance strove; / Tho' all the fierce and drunken passions wove / A dance more wild than ever maniac's dream; / Ye storms, that round the dawning east assembled, / The sun was rising, tho' ye hid his light!"
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1803
"Ah, how the human mind wearies herself / With her own wanderings, and, involved in gloom / Impenetrable, speculates amiss!"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1803
"Twin-brother of the goddess born from Jove, / He dwells not in his father's mind, but, though / Of common nature with ourselves, exists / Apart, and occupies a local home."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1804
"Still I perceive thee, in my heart enshrin'd, / Its guardian idol, and its favourite guest."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)