Date: 1800
"[I]f miseries pressed on thy brain too great for reason to support, would tend thee in the cell of madness, and even there derive more ecstasy from one kind look given in the transient intervals of sense, than all the unruffled pleasures that the world without thee can afford"
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
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: September 10, 1802
"A Poet's Heart & Intellect should be combined, intimately combined & unified, with the great appearances in Nature -- & not merely held in solution & loose mixture with them, in the shape of formal Similies."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1803
"Why, curst remembrance, wilt thou haunt my mind?"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1803
A partner of one's "future state" should not have "strong vice" "stamped upon her mind"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)