Date: December 1790
"These lively conjectures are the breezes that preserve the still lake from stagnating"
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"It is as it were the interpretation of a diviner nature through our own; but its footsteps are like those of a wind over the sea, which the coming calm erases, and whose traces remain only as on the wrinkled sand which paves it."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)