Date: 1838
" But hope rose gently in the mother's breast; / For well she knew that neither grief nor joy / Pain'd without hope, or pleased without alloy"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1838
"Hard was his heart; but yet a heart of steel / May melt in dying, and dissolving feel."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"The sacred links of that chain have never been entirely disjoined, which descending through the minds of many men is attached to those great minds, whence as from a magnet the invisible effluence is sent forth, which at once connects, animates, and sustains the life of all"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"It is as it were the interpretation of a diviner nature through our own; but its footsteps are like those of a wind over the sea, which the coming calm erases, and whose traces remain only as on the wrinkled sand which paves it."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1842
"For a shrewd intellect, the best employ / Is to detect a soul of base alloy;"
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: 1842
None "can I find / No sterling unadulterated mind; / None that abides the crucible like mine"
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: 1842
"I think thy breast is meade o' brass"
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1842
"Small cause of triumph can the bravest feel, / For never yet were brave hearts made of steel."
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1854
"By nonsense he meant fancy; and truly it is probable she was as free from any alloy of that nature, as any human being not arrived at the perfection of an absolute idiot, ever was."
preview | full record— Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
Date: 1862
"O may not gold, according to its kind, / Twist round your heart, and grow upon your mind!"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)