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: 1806
The fancy may be sick (and borne on a grey goose wing to immortal fame)
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1797, 1806
"While shadows, blanks to reason's orb, / In dread succession haunt the brain"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1807
"For oft when on my couch I lie / In vacant or in pensive mood, / They [the daffodils] flash upon that inward eye / which is the bliss of solitude."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1808
"The Soul awakes; and, wond'ring, sees / In her mild Hand the golden Key."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
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: 1810
"This is Mr Brydone's own simile, and beyond any other which could have been chosen, brings to the mind's eye these peculiar effects of vision"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1810
"If words be not (recurring to a metaphor before used) an incarnation of the thought but only a clothing for it, then surely will they prove an ill gift; such a one as those poisoned vestments, read of in the stories of superstitious times, which had power to consume and to alienate from his righ...
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1813
The thought may be feasted and the mind filled with sweet sensations
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1814
"They have injured the finest mind!--for sometimes, Fanny, I own to you, it does appear more than manner; it appears as if the mind itself was tainted."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)