Date: 1817
"The poetic PSYCHE, in its process to full development, undergoes as many changes as its Greek name-sake, the butterfly."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1817
"Most of my readers will have observed a small water-insect on the surface of rivulets, which throws a cinque-spotted shadow fringed with prismatic colours on the sunny bottom of the brook; and will have noticed, how the little animal wins its way up against the stream, by alternate pulses of act...
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1831
"We spurn at the bounds of time and space; nor would the thought be less futile that imagines to imprison the mind within the limits of the body, than the attempt of the booby clown who is said within a thick hedge to have plotted to shut in the flight of an eagle"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
"In this sense a numerous school is, to a degree that can scarcely be adequately described, the slaughter-house of mind."
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Date: w. 1821, 1840
"For Lucretius had limed the wings of his swift spirit in the dregs of the sensible world."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"What were virtue, love, patriotism, friendship - what were the scenery of this beautiful universe which we inhabit; what were our consolations on this side of the grave - and what were our aspirations beyond it, if poetry did not ascend to bring light and fire from those eternal regions where th...
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)