Date: September 30, 1769
"A sage philosopher, to try / What pupil saw with reason's eye,"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1770
"Excursive thought" may "Stand still a moment, and by reason taught / Judge rightly, with strict eye thyself survey"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1770
"I could not look upon his mangled corse: / I saw his mangled corse in my mind's eye."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1772-1781
"Fond Fancy's eye, / That inly gives locality and form / To what she prizes best, full oft pervades / Those hidden caverns, where pale chrysolites, / And glittering spars dart a mysterious gleam / Of inborn lustre, from the garish day / Unborrow'd."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1773
"How bright the scene to Fancy's eye appears, / Through the long perspective of distant years, / When this, this little group their country calls / From academic shades and learned halls, / To fix her laws, her spirit to sustain, / And light up glory through her wide domain!"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"O Wisdom! if thy soft controul / Can soothe the sickness of the soul, / Can bid the warring passions cease, / And breathe the calm of tender peace;-- / Wisdom! I bless thy gentle sway, / And ever, ever will obey."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
The soul contains "An embryo of God, a spark of fire divine / Which must burn on for ages."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1764, 1773
"And souls, however mean or vile, / Like features, brighten by a smile."
preview | full record— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)
Date: 1773
"There, whilst the vault resounds my plaintive sigh, / In deathful echoes, shall Despondence bring / The saddest visions on the mind's wan eye, / That ever wav'd on Fancy's blackest wing"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1773, 1810
"In my mind's eye with joy the heights I see; / For Middlesex! my soul exults in thee!"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)