Date: 1792
"O, the fell conflict, the intestine strife, / This clash of good and evil, death and life! / What, what are all the wars of sea and wind, / Or wreck of matter, to This War of Mind?"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1792
"Two minds in one, and each a truceless guest, / Rending the sphere of our distracted breast!"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1793
" When painful truths invade the mind, / Ev'n wisdom wishes to be blind, / And hates th' officious ray."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1793
"Silent, for ever cold!--Renew, renew / Thy plaint, that well might rend a heart of steel!"
preview | full record— Kendall, William (1768-1832)
Date: 1793
"To paint th' ecstatic tumult of their souls, / The rapture of deliverance from death / Thus threatenting, and the mutual joys of safety, / Description aims not, for too weak her power, / Too faint her colours: diffident she points / To fancy's faithful mirror, and then drops / Her useless pencil."
preview | full record— Kett, Henry (1761-1825)
Date: 1793
"Alas the sex you little know, / Their ruling passion is a Beau."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1794
"This Magnet, spite of nature's laws, / Still as more distant stronger draws, / And what's more strange, (too well I feel!) / Attracts all hearts but hearts of steel"
preview | full record— Graham, James (1765-1811)
Date: 1794
"'What numerous ills in life befall! / 'Yet Wisdom learns to scorn them all, / 'And arms the breast with steel"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1794
" And now these Dæmons of the captive mind / Him to the drery Cave of Discontent resignd"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1794
The mists of faction may pour around one's head
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)