Date: 1780
"Through the night's still air / The sound of human voices, and the clank / Of iron hoofs, reveal'd a scene at once, / That almost shook his soul from her frail tenement."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1780
Reason's subjects work and return home with "treasures fraught" and display before their queen their "shining spoils, which are laid up in "mental stores."
preview | full record— Steele, Anne (1717-1778)
Date: 1781
"Thus our young lord, with fashion's phrase refin'd, / Fineer'd the mean interior of his mind"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1781
"But now, farewell, ye flow'ry Cells, / Where bright Imagination dwells, / Round whom in Circles ever gay / The young Ideas love to play"
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: 1781, 1791
"Hence rash Belief! may thy wild thoughts again / Ne'er thro the cells of busy fancy rove!"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1781, 1791
"If haply human passions swell, / And shake awhile their peaceful cell, / They strive with idle force"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1782
The mind may be "unfurnish'd" and listless
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
"The mind and conduct mutually imprint / And stamp their image in each other's mint."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1787
"Yet when he bawl'd for sense, he bawl'd, I wot, / For furniture the head had never got."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1782
"Yet sober Critics, of no vulgar note, / But such as Learning's sons are proud to quote, / The progress of Homeric verse explain, / As if their souls had lodg'd in Homer's brain."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)