Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"So poignant a mind in a vulgariz'd shell,/ Resembles a bucket of gold in a well; / 'Tis like Ceylon's best spice in a rude-fashion'd jar, / Or Comedy coop'd in a Dutch man of war."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1793
In sleep "Our tired attention resigns the helm, ideas swim before us in wild confusion, and are attended with less and less distinctness, till at length they leave no traces in the memory."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1799
"'Th' woes imagination broaches / 'Drive through my brain like mourning coaches."
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1804
" Two men they were by storms of misery driven / To lose the soul's sheet anchor, trust in Heaven!"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"They [Infidels] court their Pupils to the Pagan code, / To Nature's nudities, dim Reason's road; / Philosophy's and Fancy's rules to read, / To form their Conduct, and to fix their Creed."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
One may "with the sails of Fancy, all unfurl'd, / Run his wild Course amidst a carnal World"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)