Date: 1824
"'I rose; and, bending at her sweet command, / Touched with faint lips the cup she raised, / And suddenly my brain became as sand / 'Where the first wave had more than half erased / The track of deer on desert Labrador; / Whilst the wolf, from which they fled amazed, / 'Leaves his stamp visibly u...
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1824
"What was this grief, which ne'er in other minds / A mirror found"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
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: w. 1775, 1827
"For thou, within the human Mind / Fix'd, as on thy peculiar throne, / Sitt'st like a Deity inshrined; / And either Muse is all thine own!"
preview | full record— Crowe, William (1745-1829)
Date: 1830
"'A lovely form there sate beside my bed [...]Twas my own spirit newly come from heaven, / Wooing its gentle way into my soul!"
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1831
"By the mind we understand that within us which feels and thinks, the seat of sensation and reason"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
"We spurn at the bounds of time and space; nor would the thought be less futile that imagines to imprison the mind within the limits of the body, than the attempt of the booby clown who is said within a thick hedge to have plotted to shut in the flight of an eagle"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
"The body is apprehended as no more important and of intimate connection to a man engaged in a train of reflections, than the house or apartment in which he dwells"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
"The mind may aptly be described under the denomination of the 'stranger at home.'"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
"On set occasions and at appropriate times we examine our stores, and ascertain the various commodities we have, laid up in our presses and our coffers. Like the governor of a fort in time of peace, which was erected to keep out a foreign assailant, we occasionally visit our armoury, and take acc...
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)