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: 1810
"If words be not (recurring to a metaphor before used) an incarnation of the thought but only a clothing for it, then surely will they prove an ill gift; such a one as those poisoned vestments, read of in the stories of superstitious times, which had power to consume and to alienate from his righ...
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)