Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
On might not trace "the mazes of her mystic brain / To mark what monsters such deep cells contain / Contriving constant schemes to furnish food, / For breeding Vultures' ever hungry brood!"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"Solicit Fancy from celestial flights, / To wander o'er the World for frail delights / And crowd Imagination's rooms, immense, / With what relates alone to Time and Sense!"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
One may confer alone, "Amidst Imagination's throngs of thought, / And fairy broods by procreant Fancy brought;"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1815
"Fancy will sometimes take the lead / And play its part in Reason's stead."
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817
"These will in throngs before my mind intrude."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1817
"bring a mind, / Where legal and where moral sense are join'd, / With the pure essence; holy thoughts, that dwell / In the soul's most retired, and sacred cell"
preview | full record— Gifford, William (1756-1826)
Date: 1818
"I knew, I knew / There was a place untenanted in it: / In that same void white Chastity shall sit, / And monitor me nightly to lone slumber"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1819
"Writing! O, I should have written thousands of pamphlets by this time, if it wasn't that--that the first sentence is so damn'd hard to get over; but, unluckily, I have such a profusion of ideas, that, when I sit down to write, there is so much crowding and jostling among them, that, curse me, yo...
preview | full record— Poole, John (1786-1872)
Date: August 16, 1820
"My Imagination is a Monastery and I am its Monk--you must explain my metapcs to yourself."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)