Date: 1827
"I feel a joy, / Dear to my heart, and mixed with no alloy."
preview | full record— Gifford, William (1756-1826)
Date: w. 1775, 1827
"For thou, within the human Mind / Fix'd, as on thy peculiar throne, / Sitt'st like a Deity inshrined; / And either Muse is all thine own!"
preview | full record— Crowe, William (1745-1829)
Date: 1830
"'A lovely form there sate beside my bed [...]Twas my own spirit newly come from heaven, / Wooing its gentle way into my soul!"
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1830
"No idle whims, no vapours fill'd her brain, / But Prudence for her youthful guide she took, / And Goodness, which no earthly vice could stain, / Dwelt in her mind; she was ne proud I ween or vain."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1832
"Yet distant countries / Not then, as now, communication held / By beaten tracks, and all the luxuries / Of easy transit, while the missive charge / Of the pen's register'd mirror of the mind / Was slow and interrupted"
preview | full record— Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837)