Date: 1767, 1778
"Here science, like the sun, see radiant rise, / With intellectual beam, through mental skies, / To gild, to gladden all th' improving space, / With taste, with candor, learning, sense, and grace; / To light up all the mind's remotest cells, / Where fancy fledges, and where genius dwells."
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Date: w. c. 1779
"[T]hen prudence took her Seat / Within the Soul, and reign'd in Virtue's room."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1781
"Thus our young lord, with fashion's phrase refin'd, / Fineer'd the mean interior of his mind"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1781, 1791
"Hence rash Belief! may thy wild thoughts again / Ne'er thro the cells of busy fancy rove!"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1781, 1791
"If haply human passions swell, / And shake awhile their peaceful cell, / They strive with idle force"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1782
"With Asiatic vices stored thy mind, / But left their virtues and thine own behind, / And, having truck'd thy soul, brought home the fee, / To tempt the poor to sell himself to thee?"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1784
"But, for the furniture within, / Whether it be of brains, or lead, / What matters it, so there's a head?"
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1784
"Nor is it thinking much, but doing, / That keeps our tenements from ruin"
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Date: 1785
"An heav'nly mind / May be indiff'rent to her house of clay, / And slight the hovel as beneath her care"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
A body "queint in its deportment and attire" may (not) lodge "an heav'nly mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)