Date: 1782
A people may receive the "transcript of the eternal mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
One may have a mind "Not yet so blank, or fashionably blind, / But now and then perhaps a feeble ray /Of distant wisdom shoots across his way."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: w. 1782-3, 1801
Love's laws may be "written in the mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
A ruined mind may be "A blank of Nature, vanish'd every thought / That Nature, Reason, that Experience taught."
preview | full record— Lovibond, Edward (bap. 1723, d. 1775)
Date: 1785
Hearts may scarce yield to impression while "The daughter's can soften and melt"
preview | full record— Lovibond, Edward (bap. 1723, d. 1775)
Date: 1788
"Well-tutor'd Learning, from his books / Dismiss'd with grave, not haughty looks, / Their order on his shelves exact, / Not more harmonious or compact / Than that, to which he keeps confined / The various treasures of his mind."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1788
"The parson frank'd their souls to kingdom-come!"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1789
"[T]he important overthrow of the common enemy of our religious liberty ... must be engraven on our hearts in the very deepest characters of gratitude and praise"
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)
Date: 1790
"'Tis God's decree engrav'd upon the heart / To make us wait with patience, till he comes, / Undraws the curtain, and dispels the gloom, / And takes us to his bosom, and rewards / Our constancy and truth."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1791, 1800
"Then from the iron tablet of my mind, / Will I efface my catalogue of wrongs."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)