Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"Cloistered" ideas are "Like undrawn swords, in scabbards, cankering, lie,
While useless edge, and point, and polish, fly"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"And may not humblest, meekest, Christian's Mind / Investigate the good of all Mankind? / Bring Truth and Justice to their Judgment's test, / And try, by Reason's balance what weighs best?"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1816
"This was love's doing: from my constant heart / The image stampt by him can ne'er depart"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1816
"[I]n that Tale I find / The furrows of long thought, and dried-up tears, / Which, ebbing, leave a sterile track behind."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1816
"But men's thoughts were the steps which paved thy throne, / Their admiration thy best weapon shone."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1816
"Conquerors and Kings, / Founders of sects and systems, to whom add / Sophists, Bards, Statesmen, all unquiet things / Which stir too strongly the soul's secret springs, / And are themselves the fools to those they fool."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1817
"When by my solitary hearth I sit, / And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1817
"But what is higher beyond thought than thee?"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1817
A certain sense of right and wrong may be "kneaded in a mind so young"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817
"But he, the bard of every age and clime, / Of genius fruitful, ardent and sublime, / Who, from the glowing mint of fancy, pours / No spurious metal, fused from common ores, / But gold, to matchless purity refined, / And stamp'd with all the godhead in his mind."
preview | full record— Gifford, William (1756-1826)