Date: 1796
"By Locke, true WIT is best defin'd, / Her pleasant pictures lure the mind; / Associations sudden rise, / And seize the fancy by surprise."
preview | full record— Courtenay, John Lees (1775?-1794)
Date: 1796
"The effect [of wit on the mind] is strong,--because it's odd, / Like fire electric from a clod; / Or when fix'd air puts out a light, / Tho' vital makes it blaze more bright."
preview | full record— Courtenay, John Lees (1775?-1794)
Date: 1796
"Discordant tho' the ideas be, / In Fancy's logic they agree; / As in the Ark by special grace, / Mice liv'd with Cats, yet throve apace."
preview | full record— Courtenay, John Lees (1775?-1794)
Date: 1796
"Pervious to every beam, transparent Glass / Gives to the eye, all objects as they pass: / So the clear Soul, when justice claims her due, / Or honour calls,--sets all within, to view."
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: w. 1787, 1797
"They only who are curst with breasts of steel / Can mock the foibles of surviving love"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1797
The gently-murmuring tide may reflect each reflection kind and be "A faithful mirror of the mind"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1797, 1810
"For pressure but new-springs the generous mind; /As gold by Vulcan's torture is refined."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: July 1797, 1810
"See, while his thunders iron hearts assail, / The tyrants of each hemisphere turn pale!"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: w. 1746, 1797
"His youthful breast, by years mature refin'd, / May shine the mirror of thy blameless mind."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: w. 1794, 1797
"'Tis only those of purer clay / 'From sensual dross refined, / 'In whom the passions pleas'd obey / 'The God within the mind, / 'Who share my delegated aid, / 'Through Wisdom's golden mean convey'd / 'From the first source of sov'reign good."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)