Date: 1786
Friendship " bade my stubborn Bosom feel, / And soften'd thus a Heart of Steel!"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838); Moschus
Date: 1786
"Young Fancy, oft in rainbow vest array'd, / Points to new scenes that in succession pass / Across the wond'rous mirror that she bears, / And bids thy unsated soul and wandering eye / A wider range o'er all her prospects take."
preview | full record— Headley, Henry (1765-1788)
Date: 1786
"A festive glass the drooping mind requires, / His far-off phiz keen Fancy's eye descries"
preview | full record— Headley, Henry (1765-1788)
Date: 1786, 1816
"In vain at glory gudgeon Boswell snaps-- / His mind's a paper kite--compos'd of scraps / Just o'er the tops of chimneys form'd to fly."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1786
The infant mind may (and should) be fed with "proper fare"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1786
"Like caterpillars dangling under trees / By slender threads, and swinging in the breeze, / Which filthily bewray and sore disgrace / The boughs in which are bred the unseemly race, / While every worm industriously weaves / And winds his web about the rivell'd leaves; / So numerous are the follie...
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1786
The growing mind needs better nourishment than "conjugated verbs" and "nouns declined"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1786
The soul controls "the state, the splendour and the throne, / An intellectual kingdom, all her own"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1786
One may steal "The gem of truth from his unguarded soul"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1786
"The stamp of artless piety impress'd / By kind tuition on his yielding breast"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)