Date: 1802
"Blest mirror! which can thus, with magic pow'r, / Give the rank weed the fragrance of the flow'r; / And from deformities,--without, within, / Spots in the mind, or specks upon the skin-- / Can all that's good, and all that's fair reflect, / And change to beauty, every dark defect."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1805
"Or, when deserted by the Nine, / Forc'd to elaborate the line, / To labour more, yet less to please, / In the Mind's anguish or disease."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1805
"When you, my Friend, in lucky hour, / Bestow'd the sight-relieving power; / A boon as useful as 'tis kind-- / Yet had no Eye but of the mind-- / Had I been deaf, and blind, and dumb, / For half a century to come, / That Eye, in vision bright and clear, / Would view your worth, and ...
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1810
"In his mind's eye his house and glebe he sees, / And farms and talks with farmers at his ease;"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1817
"With these Instructors may be join'd / To strengthen and enrich the mind, / Science, whose powers profound impart, / Whate'er of nature and of art / Presents to th'intellectual eye, / In all the vast variety."
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817
"The lights and shades, in contrast due, / Relieve each other in the view: / Alike the moral painter's part / T'obey the rules of studious art; / Thus to attract the mental eye / With height'ning variety;-- / And as the pencil truly gives / Each form that on the canvas lives, / To make his pen ad...
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1823
The "venom'd shafts" of Cupid "empoison mortal joy," "Drawing from heav'n the soul of man to earth, / With foul alloy debasing purest treasure."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)