Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Moreover, from without / When oft the same society of forms / In the same order have approach'd his mind, / He deigns no more their steps with curious heed / To trace; no more their features or their garb / He now examines; but of them and their / Condition, as with some diviner's tongue, / Affi...
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1755
"Those would seem Gentlemen! who strut the Mall, / In Waistcoats lac'd on Sundays--troll about, / Leaving their Minds undrest--all Show without."
preview | full record— Arnold, Cornelius (b. 1714, d. in or after 1758)
Date: 1758
"In heav'nly glories dress thy soul within."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1773, 1778
"The Passions there embody'd throng, / On mental Pinions, swift, and strong, / In Robes array'd of various Fire"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1786
"Young Fancy, oft in rainbow vest array'd, / Points to new scenes that in succession pass / Across the wond'rous mirror that she bears, / And bids thy unsated soul and wandering eye / A wider range o'er all her prospects take."
preview | full record— Headley, Henry (1765-1788)
Date: 1781, 1791
"Thou hast no flinty heart which cannot feel, / Thy bosom is not braced with chains of steel."
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1803
Genius may "Add novel tints to fancy's rainbow dress."
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: w. c. 1800-1807, 1866
"Joy & Woe are woven fine / A Clothing for the soul divine / Under every grief & pine / Runs a joy with silken twine"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1816
"I stood / Among them, but not of them--in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could, / Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1820
"She stood: he pass'd, shut up in mysteries, / His mind wrapp'd like his mantle."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)