Date: 1805
"There, as those cells [Satan's myrmidons] empty found / Where brains in wiser pates abound, / They fill'd them with mephitic gas / From hell, which downward strove to pass, / But, gaining exit through the throat, / By leave of porter, Epiglott, / Vented itself in fustian storm / Rhetorical."
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1810
"And yet, my heart, within thy silent cell / Dwells a fair image which is lovelier still."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1815?
"Strait to her chamber, yester-eve, / Had she retreated from the cave, / And, wildering in a maze of thought, / Fear'd every hour with danger fraught"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1819
"'For none could more by outward signs express / 'What wise men lock within the mind's recess."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: April, 1871
"Many beliefs, in Coleridge's happy phrase, slumber in the 'dormitory of the soul'; they are present to the consciousness, but they incite to no action."
preview | full record— Bagehot, William (1826-1877)
Date: 1872
"No! the celestial Author and Creator / In those two volumes of the Book of Nature / Ordained for our instruction, represents, / By multiform but single elements, / One universe of sense, all that we know, / The visible world of instantaneous show / And tangible creation, hard and slow,The last r...
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)