Date: 1775
"What numbers censure, but how few judge right, / On subjects, which demand the soul's keen sight"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1777
In "the dark maeanders" of Vice's "foul abode ... busy Spirits forge, with curious art,/ The triple plates of brass, to guard the heart / From Reason's bold assault"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1777
In Vice's "foul abode ... hellish ministers with fatal care / From baneful drugs the potent juice prepare; / Whose dead'ning posset dulls the mental sense
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1778
"To melancholy thoughts awakes the soul, / And lulls the mind to contemplation's dream"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1782
The "anxious mind" may be racked by pangs
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
"O! ye better souls, / Ye nobler few, who slumber in your race, / Tho' well begun, and forwarded with hope, / Say, will you see a fellow-spirit lost, / Thus swallow'd in the ever-yawning gulf, / That frights the mental eye, and e'en appals / The man who firmest stands, nor lend your aid / To sav...
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1785
"In cities foul example on most minds / Begets its likeness"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
The mind may be pregnant "with some new theme"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
"All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil; hurts the faculties, impedes / Their progress in the road of science; blinds / The eyesight of discovery, and begets / In those that suffer it, a sordid mind."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)