Date: 1793
"But wicked man! what does he, carnal wretch, / With all his horse-like passions on full stretch?"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: w. 1766, 1796
"Little minds / Do judge of great things, like the purblind gnat, / That deems a fly, a monster"
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: 1797
"Thus on the golden thread that Fancy weaves / Buoyant, as Hope's illusive flattery breathes, / The young and visionary Poet leaves / Life's dull realities, while sevenfold wreaths / Of rainbow light around his head revolve."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: October 4, 1802
"Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, / Reality's dark dream! / I turn from you, and listen to the wind, / Which long has raved unnoticed."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: w. 1805
"And I have scarcely pitied him; have felt / A reverence for a Being thus employ'd; / And thought that in the blind and awful lair / Of such a madness, reason did lie couch'd."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: April 1806
"Come, peace of mind, delightful guest! / Oh, come, and make thy downy nest / Once more on his sad heart!"
preview | full record— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)
Date: 1806
"All around / A solemn stillness seems to guard the scene, / Nursing the brood of thought--a thriving brood / In the rich mazes of the cultur'd brain."
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1806
"Shall the caprice of nature, the deep tint / Of sultry climes, the feature varying, / Or the uncultur'd mind, endure the scourge / Of sordid tyranny, or heap the stores / Of his fair fellow man, whose ruddy cheek / Knows not the tear of pity; whose white breast / Conceals a heart, than adamant m...
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1809, 1812
"There fawning flatt'ry wins its way, / There the base passions join the fray, / Like beasts that on each other prey; / While the smile hides each trait'rous heart, / And interest plays a Proteus part."
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
One may try "Conjecture's trackless region round, / To judge what phantasms Fancy might have found-- / What Game the glances of her Hawks might trace, / Or Greyhounds view in visionary chace"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)