Date: 1824
"And in my wisdom are the orbs of Heaven / Written as in a record"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: November 1824
"Surely it is no exaggeration to say that no external advantage is to be compared with that purification of the intellectual eye which gives us to contemplate the infinite wealth of the mental world, all the hoarded treasures of its primeval dynasties, all the shapeless ore of its yet unexplored ...
preview | full record— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800-1859)
Date: January 8, 1824
"The string you touched in your last truly kind letter has been vibrating ever since, and making music most delightful to a parent's mental ear; an organ not commonly noticed, but which is full as much in daily exercise as the mind's eye of which we speak so familiarly."
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Date: 1825
Beauty, elegance and grace may "beam transcendent" from an "angel mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1825
"Vulgar passions--meteors of a day"--"expire before the chilling blasts of age"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1826
"Her Heart was Judge, & could the difference trace / Between the Jocky-Air and real Grace, / Between the Lad, who was allowed to ride, / And show his Hunters at his Landlord's Side, / And One, who thought not that he should aspire / Beyond his Rank by riding with the Squire."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1826
"Then with a Warmth of Language, which He thought / Must on a Heart of Steel or Stone have wrought, / He prest his Suit"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1826
"Seen many a Comrade droop, & strove to steel / His heart, but still the Woes of War could fee / With Other Woes."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1826
"Now, with submission to my betters, I have another way, sir; I'll drive my tyrant from my heart, and place myself on her throne."
preview | full record— King, Thomas (1730-1805)