Date: 1794
"I bring forth from my teeming bosom myriads of flames. / And thou dost stamp them with a signet"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1796
"No drug, nor juice of all the acid tribe, / Can move the Tints, which Glassy Pores imbibe; / So no mean prejudice, no bribes, nor art, / Efface th' Impressions of an Upright Heart."
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: 1796
"Behold the wretch, who from that cavern [a madhouse?--"Sad habitation of the lost, insane"] flies, / Hell in his heart, destruction in his eyes"
preview | full record— Merry, Robert (1755-1798)
Date: 1796
"Say, ye who balance things in reason's scale, / Does Magnanimity soar a pitch more high, / When Majesty listens to a trifler's tale?-- / Or when Humanity scorns to hurt a fly?"
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 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)