Date: 1781, 1791
"Hence rash Belief! may thy wild thoughts again / Ne'er thro the cells of busy fancy rove!"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1781, 1791
"If haply human passions swell, / And shake awhile their peaceful cell, / They strive with idle force"
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Date: 1781, 1791
"Or when the burnish'd car by Phoebus roll'd, / Darts more intense it's rays of liquid gold, / Beneath some ivy-fringed cave reclined, / Fancy's bright visions rushing on thy mind, / With spirits bland, nursed by the genial powers, / Soothest with melodious notes the sultry hours!"
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Date: 1781
"When love is fetter'd, all is fire, / And tender passion soon decays; / Like those sweet birds which soon expire, / When we wou'd force their tuneful lays."
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)
Date: 1782
"But what is man in his own proud esteem? / Hear him, himself the poet and the theme: / A monarch clothed with majesty and awe, / His mind his kingdom, and his will his law, / Grace in his mien and glory in his eyes, / Supreme on Earth and worthy of the skies, / Strength in his heart, dominion in...
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Date: 1782
Books may adorn one's "intellects as well as shelves"
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Date: 1782
"His passions tamed and all at his control, / How perfect the composure of his soul!"
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Date: 1782
Complacency may breath a gentle gail over the thoughts and swell an "easy sail"
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Date: 1782
"Let heathen worthies, whose exalted mind / Left sensuality and dross behind, / Possess for me their undisputed lot"
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Date: 1782
Time is a river that fails to enrich the mind and "leaves a dreary waste behind"
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