Date: 1776
"A thousand wild vagaries now rushed into my troubled brain."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1789, 1792
"The tops of these scarce veil'd the roots of those; / A winding court where wandering fancy walk'd / And to herself responsive Echo talk'd."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: November 19, 1793
"The mind, freed from her weighty companion, roams at large through the regions of fancy; and at once conceives and invents, beautifies and illustrates, amplifies and adorns."
preview | full record— Boyd, Hugh (1746-1794)
Date: 1970
"Words came without volition, sinking very slowly through his mind like pebbles."
preview | full record— Murdoch, Iris (191-1999)