Date: 1789?
" 'Tis thine to renovate the fancy's springs"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"Like a snow-ball, the mind, fraught with peace in its prime, / Moves swiftly adown the steep shelvings of Time; / Accumulates filth from Society's sons, / And strengthens and hardens its coat as it runs; / Till habit on habit is negligent laid, / And the object appears motley, vile, and ill-made...
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1789
"The third, / More absurd, / Than the iron-fed bird; / And whose brains lacked juice like an over-squeezed curd, / Had nothing of value to give but her--Word."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1791
Gods are "swift as the traveller's thought"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
"But when the Gods with evils unforeseen / Smite him, he bears them with a grudging mind; / For such as the complexion of his lot / By the appointment of the Sire of all, Such is the colour of the mind of man."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
A thought may occupy and haunt the mind
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791, 1806
To Shakespeare's illumined sight was consigned "The rugged cavern of the Murd'rer's breast"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1791
"and my mother's mind / In doubtful balance hangs, if still with me / An inmate, she shall manage my concerns, / Attentive only to her absent Lord / And her own good report"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1792
Marks of mind are "Stamp'd on each countenance"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)