Date: 1802
One may be persuaded "to drink / That charmed cup, which Reason's mintage fair / Unmoulds, and stamps the monster on the man"
preview | full record— Warton, Thomas, the younger (1728-1790)
Date: 1802
"[H]e did boast he had made his fortune by the coinage of his own brain, by Radix Rheno, I did think he laid, by coining ready rhino"
preview | full record— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841)
Date: 1802
"Yet laws there are, whose power each being feels, Impress'd on every heart with Nature's seals."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1802
"With my inward eye 'tis an old man grey, / With my outward a thistle across the way."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1802
"Blest mirror! which can thus, with magic pow'r, / Give the rank weed the fragrance of the flow'r; / And from deformities,--without, within, / Spots in the mind, or specks upon the skin-- / Can all that's good, and all that's fair reflect, / And change to beauty, every dark defect."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1802
"He considers man and nature as essentially adapted to each other, and the mind of man as naturally the mirror of the fairest and most interesting properties of nature."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1802
"The brain secretes thought like the liver secretes bile."
preview | full record— Cabanis, Pierre Jean Georges (1757-1808)
Date: 1802
"Paint courts, whose sorceries, too seducing bind, / In chains, in shameful slavish chains, the mind; / Courts, where unblushing Flatt'ry finds the way, / And casts a cloud o'er Truth's eternal ray."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: October 4, 1802
"I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: October 4, 1802
"Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth / A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud / Enveloping the Earth--"
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)