Date: 1779
Jesus may "inhabitest the humble mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1779
"Such pensiveness oft follows, when the mind, / Surcharg'd with joy, hath yielded all her pow'rs / To the insidious guest."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1780
"Tread down Thy foes, with power control / The beast and devil in my soul."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1781
"Mind, like a bride from a nobler family, enriches matter by its union, and brings as a dower, possessions before unknown. Henceforth matter appears cloathed in a gayer and richer garment; and the fruits of this union are a new progeny, to which matter, confining its alliance to its own family, c...
preview | full record— Rotheram, John (1725–1789)
Date: 1781
"Which, like a skilful artist, goes to work upon the materials furnished by the senses; comparing selecting, analysing, and abstracting; till by placing them in different points of view their fitness, relations, and dependencies are seen."
preview | full record— Rotheram, John (1725–1789)
Date: 1781
"Her teeming Thoughts with bright Conceptions glow, / Ideas crowd, and Lines spontaneous flow."
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: 1781
"Fashion's pert tricks the crowded brain oppress / With all the poor parade of tawdry dress:"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
Homer's "Song arose / As the good Parson's quiet Sermon grows; / Who, while his easy thoughts no pressure find / From hosts of images that crowd the mind, / First calmly settles on some moral text, / Then creeps--from one division--to the next"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
"Here tranquility once more made its abode the heart of Cecilia; that heart so long torn with anguish, suspense and horrour!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Throughout mankind, the Christian kind at least, / There dwells a consciousness in every breast."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)