Date: 1794
"Bid your minds then sit calmly on their thrones, amidst the hurly burly of critical attacks."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1795
"The infant mind has been compared to a tabula rasa, or sheet of clean paper: but there is this essential difference, as hath been well observed, between the opposite objects of comparison they are not both equally Indifferent to the inscription which they are to bear."
preview | full record— Napleton, John (1738/9-1817)
Date: 1795
"Still to be serious, Pitt, before we part: / Let Mercy melt the mill-stone of thy heart."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1797
The gently-murmuring tide may reflect each reflection kind and be "A faithful mirror of the mind"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: February 19, 1798
"Whether material substance unrefined, / Owns the strong impulse of instinctive mind, / Which to one centre points diverging lines, / Confounds, refracts, invig'rates, and combines?"
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: 1798
"So, mighty Burke! in thy sepulchral urn, / To fancy's view, the lamp of Truth shall burn"
preview | full record— Canning, George (1770-1827)