Date: February 19, 1798
"Whether material substance unrefined, / Owns the strong impulse of instinctive mind, / Which to one centre points diverging lines, / Confounds, refracts, invig'rates, and combines?"
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: 1798
"Methinks, its [a fluttering "film"] motion in this hush of nature / Gives it dim sympathies with me who live, / Making it a companionable form, / Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling Spirit / By its own moods interprets, every where / Echo or mirror seeking of itself, / And makes a toy of Thou...
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1799
"A head of wax should never court the sun."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1801
The heart may bear a "fair image"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
Heaven "Braces each nerve, and stamps with energy his soul"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
"Stampt on my soul, and with my life combin'd, / Is the remembrance of my much-lov'd King"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1802
"Is prouder yet in sterling worth to shine, / Stamp'd by the friendship of a mind like thine"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1802
One may be persuaded "to drink / That charmed cup, which Reason's mintage fair / Unmoulds, and stamps the monster on the man"
preview | full record— Warton, Thomas, the younger (1728-1790)
Date: 1802
"Blest mirror! which can thus, with magic pow'r, / Give the rank weed the fragrance of the flow'r; / And from deformities,--without, within, / Spots in the mind, or specks upon the skin-- / Can all that's good, and all that's fair reflect, / And change to beauty, every dark defect."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1803
"Why, curst remembrance, wilt thou haunt my mind?"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)