Date: 1783
"In lucent words my darkling verses dight, / And wash my earthy mind in thy clear streams,"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1783
" And when thou yields to night thy wide domain, / Let rays of truth enlight his sleeping brain."
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Date: w. 1782-3, 1801
Love's laws may be "written in the mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: w. 1782-3, 1801
All the mind, "in all her faculties refined," may taste "happiness complete"
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Date: 1783
"When first the orient rays of beauty move / The conscious soul, they light the lamp of love"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: August 1783
"Death broke at once the vital chain, / And free'd his soul the nearest way."
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Date: 1783
"Thus have we proved it never happens, / That ornament and outward trappings, / Can make on the heart the least impression, / Much less secure a fix'd possession."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1783
"Learn hence, that husbands will be blind / To every beauty but the mind; / Great Venus there should hold her court; / should the Loves and Graces sport / There rapture beam'd in every feature, / Bound by that Cestus, called Good Nature."
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Date: 1783
The senses may "sing and dance round Reason's fine-wrought throne"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1783
"O sheathe their hearts with triple steel, that they / May emulate their fathers' virtues"
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