Date: 1781
"Her teeming Thoughts with bright Conceptions glow, / Ideas crowd, and Lines spontaneous flow."
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: 1781
"Fashion's pert tricks the crowded brain oppress / With all the poor parade of tawdry dress:"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1781
"For when Care or dull Sorrow perplexes our breasts,
He can banish the Senses that harbour such Guests!"
preview | full record— Tickell, Richard (1751-1793)
Date: 1782
Homer's "Song arose / As the good Parson's quiet Sermon grows; / Who, while his easy thoughts no pressure find / From hosts of images that crowd the mind, / First calmly settles on some moral text, / Then creeps--from one division--to the next"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
"Throughout mankind, the Christian kind at least, / There dwells a consciousness in every breast."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
"Hence all that is in man, pride, passion, art, / Powers of the mind , and feelings of the heart, / Insensible of Truth's almighty charms, / Starts at her first approach, and sounds to arms!"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
"Peace of mind" is a delightful guest that may make its "downy nest" in a "sad heart"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1783
"Learn hence, that husbands will be blind / To every beauty but the mind; / Great Venus there should hold her court; / should the Loves and Graces sport / There rapture beam'd in every feature, / Bound by that Cestus, called Good Nature."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1785
A meagre intellect is "unfit / To be tenant of man's noble form"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
Knowledge and wisdom dwell in the head: knowledge in "heads replete with thoughts of other men" and wisdom "in minds attentive of their own"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)