Date: 1775
The judgment may mend the plan drawn by fancy
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1775
"Need we the influence of the northern star / To string our nerves and steel our hearts to war? "
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1776
"But the greatest happiness of the greatest number requires, that they should be not only imagined but proved: and this they shall now be, in so far as natural probability, aided by whatever support it may be thought to receive from the character of the narrator, can gain credence, for the indica...
preview | full record— Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)
Date: 1781
"[A]ll you've said / Seems to wear Reason's stamp."
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: 1786
"Young Fancy, oft in rainbow vest array'd, / Points to new scenes that in succession pass / Across the wond'rous mirror that she bears, / And bids thy unsated soul and wandering eye / A wider range o'er all her prospects take."
preview | full record— Headley, Henry (1765-1788)
Date: 1787
"For scenes that frequent shapes of Death impart / Arm the firm breast, and steel the manly heart"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1793, 1797
"Then, while each hideous image to his mind, / Rises terrific, o'er a bleeding corse / Stumbling he falls."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1795
"The passions are the wings of spirit. Cold tranquillity the grave of thought"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1795
"Even there the passions reign; but they rove through the mind like murmuring, winds through barren and gloomy regions."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1795
"The mind of man, when disturbed, is a chaos, 'without form and void.' His ideas take no shape, or the formation he tries at swiftly dies."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)