Date: 1811
"The senses are the only inlets of knowledge, and there is an inward sense that had persuaded me of this."
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Date: 1812
The realms of mind are ruled by shades
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1812
Fancy may be kindled
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1813
"O Spirit! through the sense / By which thy inner nature was apprised / Of outward shows, vague dreams have rolled, / And varied reminiscences have waked / Tablets that never fade."
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Date: 1814
"The mind of a child is like the acorn; its powers are folded up, they do not yet appear, but they are all there."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1814
"Instruction is the food of the mind; it is like the dew and the rain and the rich soil."
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Date: 1817
"The fashionable journal is expected to be a mirror of public opinion in its own party, a brilliant magnifying mirror, in which the mind of the public may see itself look large and handsome."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1817
Milton in his "latter days" was "poor, sick, blind, slandered, persecuted [...] yet still listening to the music of his thoughts."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1817
"The poetic PSYCHE, in its process to full development, undergoes as many changes as its Greek name-sake, the butterfly."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1817
"My friend has drawn a masterly sketch of the branches with their poetic fruitage. I wish to add the trunk, and even the roots as far as they lift themselves above the ground, and are visible to the naked eye of our common consciousness."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)