Date: 1792
The Roman senators did "Not shew the mental portraiture itself, / By gradual art, thro' fancy's calmer light. / Pure passion dwells not on description's hues"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
"Beyond the woody Tamar, fancy trac'd; / And, as she spread the glowing tint, it seem'd / No fairy picture: for young hope reliev'd / With golden rays each figure fancy drew"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1794
"If our recollection or imagination be not a repetition of animal movements, I ask, in my turn, What is it? You tell me it consists of images or pictures of things. Where is this extensive canvas hung up? or where are the numerous receptacles in which those are deposited? or to what else in the a...
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: 1796
"At the same time the cloud disappeared, and he beheld a figure more beautiful than fancy's pencil ever drew."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: w. 1766, 1797
"The future whole infix upon thy mind; / Be there each line in truth ideal drawn"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: w. 1798, 1803-4
"He had perceived the presence and the power / Of greatness, and deep feelings had impressed / Great objects on his mind with portraiture / And colour so distinct that on his mind / They lay like substances, and almost seemed / To haunt the bodily sense."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1817
"The lights and shades, in contrast due, / Relieve each other in the view: / Alike the moral painter's part / T'obey the rules of studious art; / Thus to attract the mental eye / With height'ning variety;-- / And as the pencil truly gives / Each form that on the canvas lives, / To make his pen ad...
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817
"In our perceptions we seem to ourselves merely passive to an external power, whether as a mirror reflecting the landscape, or as a blank canvas on which some unknown hand paints it."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1817
"The wise Stagyrite speaks of no successive particles propagating motion like billiard balls (as Hobbs;) nor of nervous or animal spirits, where inanimate and irrational solids are thawed down, and distilled, or filtrated by ascension, into living and intelligent fluids, that etch and re-etch eng...
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1819
Some dreams "more strong, abiding figures draw / 'Upon the brain, and we assert 'I saw;'"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)