Date: 1791
"Every page of the Rambler shews a mind teeming with classical allusion and poetical imagery."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1791
"I cannot allow any fragment whatever that floats in my memory concerning the great subject of this work to be lost."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1793
"Flit, Galloway, and find / Some narrow, dirty, dungeon cave, / The picture of thy mind"
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Date: 1794
" And now these Dæmons of the captive mind / Him to the drery Cave of Discontent resignd"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1799
In Fancy's "filial train," inspiration rides foremost and "Myriads of spruce ideas crowd the rear."
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)