Date: 1810
An idea "too oft survey'd, / Beneath the ardent beam of Thought shall fade"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1810
"Yes, it is beneath the constant glow of ardent imagination, that the impression, given by memory, has faded. Then it is that a good, nay even an indifferent picture, or a paper-profile of a dear lost friend, strengthens our recollection, in the same manner that retouching a copper-plate restores...
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1810
Two cause produce the vanishing of internal images; "viz. the mind not having dwelt upon the originals of those its pictures often enough to make their image strong and vivid after long absence; --and, its too frequently casting upon such inshrined resemblances, the dazzling light of fervent med...
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1810
"Reason holds her lamp no more; / Save that sometimes, with glimmering light, / She gives thy misery to thy sight"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: w. 1796, 1811
"Truths to describe, which clearly to explain / Reason's dim lamp has burnt for centuries in vain."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1811, 1812
"The soul, a cheering lamp, the scene illumes, / Fed with the splendour of ethereal rays, / And bright'ning still, as still the frame decays"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"Yet Wit, and Wisdom, Folly's shame to shun, / Will say 'tis heavenly Moonshine, not the Sun-- / Not suffer Pride to praise its feeble glow, / Beyond Heav'n's brighter beams which blaze below; / But like a Lamp, or Candle, keep its place, / To light Man's Mind with Truths of terrene Race."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"Nor, while its light dispels each dreary doubt, / To put the heavenly lamp of Reason out, / But trim, and feed it, that its friendly aids, / May shape his track thro' Time's untrodden shades"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"The common Sense of faithful Christians flout, / And puff Heav'n-lighted lamps of Reason, out!"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"Should Reason trim her lamp of heavenly light, / To show such shameless, rash, example right"?
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)