Date: w. 1784, 1799

"Pleased she surveys her infant charge, / Beholds the mental powers enlarge, / And as the young ideas rise, / Directs their issues to the skies."

— West, Jane (1758-1852)

Date: 1799

One may hie "From his own blank inanity"

— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

Date: 1799

Events "'Together ta'en--they on my mind / 'No good impression leave behind."

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

Date: 1799

"[Y]et much the Poet found, / To swell Imagination's golden store, / On Arno's bank"

— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

Date: 1799

"E'en orcs and river-dragons felt / Their iron bosoms melt / With scorching heat"

— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)

Date: 1799

"'Th' woes imagination broaches / 'Drive through my brain like mourning coaches."

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

Date: 1799

"Come, bright IMAGINATION, come! relume / Thy orient lamp; with recompensing ray / Shine on the Mind, and pierce its gathering gloom / With all the fires of intellectual Day!"

— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

Date: 1799

Pleasures past "glow sublime" in Memory's "crystal prism" and "Beam on the gloom'd and disappointed Mind"

— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

Date: 1799

"High themes the rapt concent'ring Thoughts explore, / Freed from external Pleasure's glittering chain."

— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

Date: 1799, 1806

"O Gold! thou pois'nous dross, whose subtile pow'r / Can change men's souls, or captive take the will."

— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)