Date: 1792 [1794]
"Your head's an auction-room of gauze and ruffles"
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1792
"Unknown, unfriended, to the Regal Bed: / For in the secret closet of her breast, / Constantia her imperial birth supprest"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1792
When human feelings may inspire the breast so that the "Mint of Nature" glows, "Virtue strikes her image on the mind"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1793
"Again, the only means by which truth, however immutable in its own nature, can be communicated to the human mind is through the inlet of the senses. It is perhaps impossible that a man shut up in a cabinet can ever be wise"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"Flit, Galloway, and find / Some narrow, dirty, dungeon cave, / The picture of thy mind"
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Date: 1793
"My sanctuary is in my mind."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1794
Reason once fairer than the light [has now been] fould in Knowledges dark Prison house
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1794
"PETER taketh a Survey of the Furniture of their Heads."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)