Date: February, 1821
"Standard productions of this kind are links in the chain of our conscious being. They bind together the different scattered divisions of our personal identity."
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Date: February, 1821
"The reliance on solid worth which it inculcates, the preference of sober truth to gaudy tinsel, hangs like a mill-stone round the neck of the imagination—-'a load to sink a navy'--impedes our progress, and blocks up every prospect in life."
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Date: February, 1821
"This is the only true ideal--the heavenly tints of Fancy reflected in the bubbles that float upon the spring-tide of human life."
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Date: February, 1821
"I said to myself, 'This is true eloquence: this is a man pouring out his mind on paper.'"
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Date: August 15, 1822
A king may "over three nations .. happily reign, / And establish his throne in their hearts"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1822
"I see him plainly with my Minds Eye."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1822
"That he may stray league after league some great birthplace to find / And keep his vision clear from speck, his inward sight unblind. "
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1822
Reason "from her judgement-seat / Must, with a tender rigour, treat / The venial errors of the mind, / And in severity be kind"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1822
"He rose / Disturbed and frowning, for tumultuous thoughts / Crowded like night upon his heart"
preview | full record— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)
Date: 1822
"But to proceed, the mind's keen eye / Of Squeezing Jack, thought he could spy / In our Quæ Genus that quick sense, / Which might reward his confidence"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)