Date: 1802
In England "There, still may sense and reason have a throne!"
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1802
"The veriest carl that nature ever made, / Heir to the flail, the wallet, and the spade, / Boasts in fair freedom's isle a free-born mind, / And sighs to share the birth-right of his kind."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1802
"Yet laws there are, whose power each being feels, Impress'd on every heart with Nature's seals."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
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: 1802
"He considers man and nature as essentially adapted to each other, and the mind of man as naturally the mirror of the fairest and most interesting properties of nature."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1803
"How shall I touch his iron soul with pain, / Who hears unmoved a multitude complain?"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1803
"[W]rithing Mania sits on Reason's throne, /Or Melancholy marks it for her own"
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: 1803
"Reason's empire o'er the world presides, / And man from brute, and man from man divides"
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: 1803
"Yet laws there are, whose power each being feels, Impress'd on every heart with Nature's seals."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1803
"The polish'd links that form the social chain, / For ages still to ages may remain / Nor snapt by rage, nor undermin'd by art, / If well the rivets join in every part; / But if those links that would the peasant bind, / Gall his chaf'd body, and corrode his mind, / The poor man's iron, and the r...
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)