Date: 1800
The fancy may outstrip one's footsteps and be busy picturing and rehearsing
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: w. 1798, 1803-4
"He had perceived the presence and the power / Of greatness, and deep feelings had impressed / Great objects on his mind with portraiture / And colour so distinct that on his mind / They lay like substances, and almost seemed / To haunt the bodily sense."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1809, 1812
"Or through some fairy palace fancy roves, / And studs, with ruby lamps, the fretted roof / Or paints with every colour of the bow / Spotless parterres, all freakt with snow-white flowers, / Flowers that no archetype in nature own."
preview | full record— Graham, James (1765-1811)
Date: 1817
"The lights and shades, in contrast due, / Relieve each other in the view: / Alike the moral painter's part / T'obey the rules of studious art; / Thus to attract the mental eye / With height'ning variety;-- / And as the pencil truly gives / Each form that on the canvas lives, / To make his pen ad...
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817
"In our perceptions we seem to ourselves merely passive to an external power, whether as a mirror reflecting the landscape, or as a blank canvas on which some unknown hand paints it."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1817
"The wise Stagyrite speaks of no successive particles propagating motion like billiard balls (as Hobbs;) nor of nervous or animal spirits, where inanimate and irrational solids are thawed down, and distilled, or filtrated by ascension, into living and intelligent fluids, that etch and re-etch eng...
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1819
Some dreams "more strong, abiding figures draw / 'Upon the brain, and we assert 'I saw;'"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1819
In sleep the fancy may place "A powerful likeness of a form and face" on the organs
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)