Date: 1819
"Philosophers, anatomists of soul, / Ye have display'd a fearful spectacle, / The human heart exposed in nakedness!"
preview | full record— Anster, John (1793-1867)
Date: 1820
"We'll make his temple in our breast, / And offer up a tear."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1820
"Good bye, I wish you a wiser master--a jailor' heart should be like you--iron."
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)
Date: January 9, 1827
"Lady Stanmore will never know the value of domestic happiness till she has lost it: she will then find that female domination is wretched slavery; and that the silken tie--the silver links that chain the heart of woman to a worthy husband, is her noblest ornament--her crown of triumph."
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)
Date: 1840-1
"Proud were my soul, to see its humble thought / On painting's mirror so divinely caught;"
preview | full record— Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)
Date: 1871
"Tis prudent to correct mens mistakes without altering their language. This makes truth glide into their souls insensibly."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1891
"For what is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?"
preview | full record— Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills (1854-1900)
Date: 1898
"Silently we went round and round, / And through each hollow mind / The Memory of dreadful things / Rushed like a dreadful wind, / And Horror stalked before each man, / And Terror crept behind."
preview | full record— Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills (1854-1900)
Date: 1919
"HANDS, do what you're bid; / Bring the balloon of the mind / That bellies and drags in the wind / Into its narrow shed."
preview | full record— Yeats, W. B. (1865-1939)