Date: 1782
"By pure exalted Sentiment she draws / From Judgment's steady voice no light applause."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
"Man's heart had been impenetrably seal'd / Like theirs that cleave the flood or graze the field, / Had not his Maker's all-bestowing hand / Given him a soul"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
"The shifts and turns, / The expedients and inventions multiform / To which the mind resorts, in chase of terms / Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to win,-- / To arrest the fleeting images that fill / The mirror of the mind, and hold them fast, / And force them sit, till he has pencil'd off / ...
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
The gay juice may "unlock the secret soul"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1785
"He that attends to his interior self, [...] Has business; feels himself engaged to achieve / No unimportant, though a silent task."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785-7, 1791, 1792
"Thus a large dumpling to its cell confin'd / (A very apt allusion to my mind)."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1785
"From shadows thinner than the fleeting night / That floats along the vale, or haply seems / To wrap the mountain in its hazy vest, / (Which the first sun-beam dissipates in air.) / How dost thou conjure monsters which ne'er mov'd / But in the chaos of thy frenzied brain!"
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1786, 1816
"In vain at glory gudgeon Boswell snaps-- / His mind's a paper kite--compos'd of scraps / Just o'er the tops of chimneys form'd to fly."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1786
"The stamp of artless piety impress'd / By kind tuition on his yielding breast"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1786
Vile example may be stamped on the breast
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)