Date: 1810
"If words be not (recurring to a metaphor before used) an incarnation of the thought but only a clothing for it, then surely will they prove an ill gift; such a one as those poisoned vestments, read of in the stories of superstitious times, which had power to consume and to alienate from his righ...
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: w. 1796, 1811
"Truths to describe, which clearly to explain / Reason's dim lamp has burnt for centuries in vain."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: w. 1796, 1811
"Hence the same Charity, heart-cheering guest, / That burnt, with fervent flame, in Dryden's breast, / Inspirits mine"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1811
"The senses are the only inlets of knowledge, and there is an inward sense that had persuaded me of this."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1811, 1812
In the "deep record of the Sibyl's leaves, / There no instruction the blank mind receives."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1811, 1812
"The soul, a cheering lamp, the scene illumes, / Fed with the splendour of ethereal rays, / And bright'ning still, as still the frame decays"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1812
"[R]eviving joy and lingering gloom" may "Alternate empire o'er [the] soul assume."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1812
Something may reach one "of the social arts, / That soften manners, and that conquer hearts."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1812
"On Captain Bligh her mind in balance hung-- / Though valiant, modest; and reserved, though young/ Against these merits must defects be set-- / Though poor, imprudent; and though proud, in debt"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)