Date: w. 1821, 1840
"These similitudes or relations are finely said by Lord Bacon to be "the same footsteps of nature impressed upon the various subjects of the world"[1] and he considers the faculty which perceives them as the storehouse of axioms common to all knowledge."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1842
"Regret came shivering through my veins, / And bound my tongue in iron chains; / My soul in prison seem'd to be / And ever must if torn from thee."
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1842
"Absence cannot guard the cell / Where wayward thoughts are doom'd to dwell"
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1842
"And ere the sentence left its hallow'd cave, / Would tell what thought was venturing next abroad. / Nor had Disguise in all her face or soul / One place to hide her poor and artful head; / Truth and her train had tenanted each cell, / And honest Friendship at the portal stood / To point or tell ...
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1843
"Pleasure is like photography. What we take, in the presence of the beloved object, is merely a negative film; we develop it later, when we are at home and have once again found at our disposal that inner darkroom, the entrance to which is barred to us so long as we are with other people."
preview | full record— Kierkegaard, Søren (1813-1855)
Date: 1848
"Choak not the granary of thy noble mind / With more bad bitter grain"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821) [in collab. with Brown]
Date: 1848
An old man's heart is narrow, tenantless of hopes, and stuffed with memories
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821) [in collab. with Brown]
Date: 1850
"The thirst of living praise, / Fit reverence for the glorious Dead, the sight / Of those long vistas, sacred catacombs, / Where mighty minds lie visibly entombed, / Have often stirred the heart of youth, and bred / A fervent love of rigorous discipline."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"My mind was at that time / A parti-coloured show of grave and gay, / Solid and light, short-sighted and profound; / Of inconsiderate habits and sedate, / Consorting in one mansion unreproved. "
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"Why, gifted with such powers to send abroad / Her spirit, must it lodge in shrines so frail?"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)