Date: 1772-1781
"Fond Fancy's eye, / That inly gives locality and form / To what she prizes best, full oft pervades / Those hidden caverns, where pale chrysolites, / And glittering spars dart a mysterious gleam / Of inborn lustre, from the garish day / Unborrow'd."
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Date: 1772
"With that strong master of our frame, / The inexorable judge within / What can be done?"
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1772, 1810
"'I saw thee near the murmuring fountain lie; / 'Mark'd the rough storm that gather'd in thy breast, / 'And knew what care thy joyless soul opprest."
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
Date: 1772, 1810
"'So vain his wishes, and so weak his mind, / 'His soul, a bright obscurity at best, / 'And rough with tempests his afflicted breast, / 'His life, a flower ere evening sure to fade, / 'His highest joys, the shadow of a shade."
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Date: 1772
"The poetry of them is often extremely noble; and the mysterious air which prevails in them, together with its delightful impression upon the mind, cannot be better expressed than in that remarkable description with which they inspired the German editor Eschenbach."
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Date: November 25, 1773
"You've seen me round the bickers reel / Wi' heart as hale as temper'd steel,"
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Date: 1764, 1773
"And souls, however mean or vile, / Like features, brighten by a smile."
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Date: 1773
"A deep impression on my mind / This farewel scene has left behind"
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Date: 1773
"'Grief, like a canker-worm at heart, / 'Had ravag'd from his inmost cell"
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Date: 1773
"'Grief, like a canker-worm at heart, / 'Had ravag'd from his inmost cell;"
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