Date: 1814

"Instruction is the food of the mind; it is like the dew and the rain and the rich soil."

— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"They [Infidels] court their Pupils to the Pagan code, / To Nature's nudities, dim Reason's road; / Philosophy's and Fancy's rules to read, / To form their Conduct, and to fix their Creed."

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

In "His pure, perfect Kingdom" God may sway "in the Souls, and Hearts, of all"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"How then should matron Mind, with filial fear, / Judge all the embryo thoughts engender'd there"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

One may try "Conjecture's trackless region round, / To judge what phantasms Fancy might have found-- / What Game the glances of her Hawks might trace, / Or Greyhounds view in visionary chace"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

Imagination may see shapes that "stir the poison in her heart of Spleen"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"What Spectres mad Suspicion might behold / Pilfering her property, in goods, or gold--"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

One may feel "The sateless longings of a famish'd Soul!"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Mind, far more voracious [than the body], reads, and reads, / Still growing greedier whilst it fonder feeds"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Man's intellectual Appetite, in Youth, / Yearns more intense while banqueting on Truth"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)