Date: 1798 [1797?]
"Fastidious Prudes, on Spleen's black palfrey vault, / Chaste to a proverb, virtuous to a fault."
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"A never-ceasing vulture gnaws his breast."
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"What! are we to live amenable to no restrictions; to give the rein to all our appetites?"
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"Here let us pause, 'twere tedious to describe, / Of Proteus whim, the Hobby Horsy tribe, / Through all the mazes of caprice to wind, / And hunt the gay Cameleon of the mind."
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1799
Insinuations "breed suspicion" in the mind
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"My unfledged fancy had not hitherto soared to this pitch."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"The heart of a physician should be in full steel and armour, like the body of a tortoise"
preview | full record— Ludger, Conrad (b. 1748)
Date: October 4, 1802
"Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, / Reality's dark dream! / I turn from you, and listen to the wind, / Which long has raved unnoticed."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1804, 1807
"Their souls shall reach the Sabbath of the skies;-- / As birds, from bleak Norwegia's wintry coast / Blown out to sea, strive to regain the shore, / But, vainly striving; yield them to the blast,-- / Swept o'er the deep to Albion's genial isle, / Amazed they light amid the bloomy sprays / Of som...
preview | full record— Graham, James (1765-1811)
Date: 1805?
Holding council in the breast is like the "regal bee" consulting before calling forth the "warlike train" "from their waxen cells"
preview | full record— Thelwall, John (1764-1834)