Date: 1790
"'Tis thus the arch deceiver, busy still / To ruin man, besets the female heart, / Insinuates evil counsel, and inflames / The hungry passions, that like arid flax / Catch at a spark, and mount into a blaze."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
"And o'er Imagination's gloomy glass, / Despair's mute sons like Banquo's visions pass"
preview | full record— Merry, Robert (1755-1798)
Date: 1790, 1794, 1795, 1818, 1827
"Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1790, 1794, 1795, 1818, 1827
"For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1791
Gods are "swift as the traveller's thought"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
"But when the Gods with evils unforeseen / Smite him, he bears them with a grudging mind; / For such as the complexion of his lot / By the appointment of the Sire of all, Such is the colour of the mind of man."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
A thought may occupy and haunt the mind
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
"Speak, can the ghost of Conscience haunt thy mind?"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1791, 1806
To Shakespeare's illumined sight was consigned "The rugged cavern of the Murd'rer's breast"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)