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...

— 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."

— 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...

— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)

Date: 1819

Some dreams "more strong, abiding figures draw / 'Upon the brain, and we assert 'I saw;'"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1819

In sleep the fancy may place "A powerful likeness of a form and face" on the organs

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1868

"Thy lovely portraiture we find / Engraven on our heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1868

"So deeply engraven I find / Thy form on my desolate heart!"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: April 26 1870

"Between the threads fine fumes arise / And shape their pictures in the brain."

— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

Date: 1876

"'The enchantment works,' thought Merlin; 'this will do;/ I think the image on his soul is painted;' / And then the mirror suddenly withdrew"

— Moultrie, John (1799-1874)

Date: 1885

"For example, to express our ideas concerning their physical basis we use different metaphors--stored up ideas, engraved images, well-beaten paths."

— Ebbinghaus, Hermann (1850-1909)