Date: 1782
Superficial education slights "the precious kernel of the stone" and polishes "its rough coat alone"
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Date: 1782
"Faults in the life breed errors in the brain"
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Date: 1782
"The mind and conduct mutually imprint / And stamp their image in each other's mint."
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Date: 1782
"Till then, old red-nos'd Wilson's art / Will hold its empire o'er my heart."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1787
"Yet when he bawl'd for sense, he bawl'd, I wot, / For furniture the head had never got."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1782
"Say! wilt Thou listen to his weaker strains, / Who pants to range round Fancy's rich domains; / To vindicate her empire, and disown / Proud System, seated on her injur'd throne?"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
"Let Critic Reason all her light diffuse / O'er the wide empire of this injur'd [Epic] Muse"
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Date: 1782
"In life's first season, when the fever's flame / Shrunk to deformity his shrivell'd frame, / And turn'd each fairer image in his brain / To blank confusion and her crazy train."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
A poet may "in robes of beauty to array, / And in bright Order's lucid blaze display, / The forms that Fancy, to thy wishes kind, / Stamps on the tablet of thy clearer mind"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)