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"
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Date: 1815
The wavering motions of the mind are like "quivering light" reflected off a confined "crystal flood" in a brass cistern
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1815
"You bid me write to amuse the tedious hours, / And save from withering my poetic powers; / Hard is the task, my friend, for verse should flow / From the free mind, not fetter'd down by woe."
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Date: 1825
Beauty, elegance and grace may "beam transcendent" from an "angel mind"
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Date: 1825
"Vulgar passions--meteors of a day"--"expire before the chilling blasts of age"
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Date: 1835-7
Romney is an expert and can trace "The mind's impression too on every face"
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Date: 1900
"Then from this hour deep on my heart engraved / Be all my duty needful."
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Date: 1931
"My Waxen heart, when near the Flame, / Yields to th' imprinted mould" but "hardens in the Cold"
preview | full record— Tickell, Thomas (1685-1740)