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)
Date: 1891
"And it did store the mind with furniture -- / In forms antique, forbidding peaceful slumber, / But morticed well, and fashioned to endure, / Hard to get into, or out of heads they cumber"
preview | full record— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)
Date: 1900
"Whence comes our instinct, that behind / The flimsy furniture of sense / Inheres the undiscovered Mind / From which the world had emanence?"
preview | full record— Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett Thomas, 5th Lord Latimer (1852-1923)