Date: 1815
"E'en now we see the human mind, / On many strange occasions blind"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817
"When no fair dreams before my "mind's eye" flit, / And the bare heath of life presents no bloom; / Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed, / And wave thy silver pinions o'er my head."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1817
"Stay! an inward frown / Of conscience bids me be more calm awhile."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1817
"With these Instructors may be join'd / To strengthen and enrich the mind, / Science, whose powers profound impart, / Whate'er of nature and of art / Presents to th'intellectual eye, / In all the vast variety."
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817
"The lights and shades, in contrast due, / Relieve each other in the view: / Alike the moral painter's part / T'obey the rules of studious art; / Thus to attract the mental eye / With height'ning variety;-- / And as the pencil truly gives / Each form that on the canvas lives, / To make his pen ad...
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Date: 1818
"Now I have tasted her sweet soul to the core / All other depths are shallow."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1819
"'And dreams are what the troubled fancy sees.'--"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1819
"Philosophers, anatomists of soul, / Ye have display'd a fearful spectacle, / The human heart exposed in nakedness!"
preview | full record— Anster, John (1793-1867)
Date: 1820
"He could call forth to his mind's eye, That bright, select society, / Who never, when he ask'd their aid, The pleasing summons disobey'd, / But did the lengthen'd way beguile / Full many an hour and many a mile."
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)