Date: 1785
"In cities foul example on most minds / Begets its likeness"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
The mind may be pregnant "with some new theme"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
"All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil; hurts the faculties, impedes / Their progress in the road of science; blinds / The eyesight of discovery, and begets / In those that suffer it, a sordid mind."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
"Thy saints proclaim thee King; and in their hearts / Thy title is engraven with a pen / Dipt in the fountain of eternal love"
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Date: 1785
The "eyesight of discovery" may be blinded by constraints
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Date: 1786
"A festive glass the drooping mind requires, / His far-off phiz keen Fancy's eye descries"
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Date: 1787
"Wisdom unseals charm'd Reason's drowsy eyes."
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"May Europe's race the generous toil pursue, / And Truth's broad mirror spread to every view; / Awake to Reason's voice the savage mind, / Check Error's force, and civilize mankind."
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)