Date: 1797
"Whatever might be her failings, they were effectually concealed by the general benevolence of her heart, and the harmony of her mind; a harmony, not the effect of torpid feelings, but the accomplishment of correct and vigilant judgment."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1798
"We'll frame the measure of our souls, / They shall be tuned to love"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: October 4, 1802
"O pure of heart! thou need'st not ask of me / What this strong music in the soul may be!"
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1805
"Alas! when ev'ry Muse is fled, / How wretched He who writes for bread! / Who, when the joyous years are flown, / And Reason totters on her throne, / And Fancy fails, and Nature tires, / And Fame herself no more inspires, / And ev'n the sweet return of Spring / No more can make the Poet sing, / T...
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1807
"The music in my heart I bore / Long after it was heard no more."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1816
"Since my young days of passion--joy, or pain-- / Perchance my heart and harp have lost a string-- / And both may jar."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1817
Milton in his "latter days" was "poor, sick, blind, slandered, persecuted [...] yet still listening to the music of his thoughts."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1817, 1818
"With ever-changing notes it floats along, / Till on my passive soul there seemed to creep / A melody, like waves on wrinkled sands that leap"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: August 1817
"Poetry is the music of language, expressing the music of the mind."
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Date: August 1817
"The musical in sound is the sustained and continuous; the musical in thought and feeling is the sustained and continuous also."
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)