Date: 1807-8

"Much it behoves us to compute the strength / Of him, whose ruin we would work, of him, / Who vaunts himself the legate of Jehovah, / And by that title keeps our souls in thrall / And bondage worse than what our limbs endur'd / Under the yoke of Pharaoh."

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

Date: w. 1797-1807, published 1893

"he stores his thoughts / As in a store house in his memory he regulates the forms / Of all beneath & all above."

— Blake, William (1757-1827)

Date: 1808

"The Soul awakes; and, wond'ring, sees / In her mild Hand the golden Key."

— Blake, William (1757-1827)

Date: 1808

Love of native soil is a ruling passion that may intervene in restless scenes

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

Date: 1808

"Judge not the Man by his exterior part: / Virtue's strong root in every soil will grow, / Rich ores lie buried under piles of snow"

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

Date: 1808

"Are these not ills enow?--must rage, and hate, / And strife, and uproar join in discord wild, / Steel the relentless heart, and spurn affections mild?"

— MacNeill, Hector (1746-1818)

Date: 1808

"Let us awhile divert our spleen, / Recall the gay, the cheerful scene; /Awhile in Fancy's mirror trace / The social night, the joyous chase"

— Anstey, Christopher (1724-1805)

Date: 1809

"Still may she [Fancy] rule the manly mind; / Her sweetest magic still impart / To soften, not subdue, the heart: / Still may she warm the chosen breast, /Not as the sovereign, but the guest."

— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)

Date: 1809

"Manhood, Shame, / And sense of Folly--all conspire, / To steel their Hearts, and rouse their Fire, / And vindicate their Honour's claim"

— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)

Date: 1809, 1812

"Or through some fairy palace fancy roves, / And studs, with ruby lamps, the fretted roof / Or paints with every colour of the bow / Spotless parterres, all freakt with snow-white flowers, / Flowers that no archetype in nature own."

— Graham, James (1765-1811)