Date: 1798

"Our minds shall drink at every pore / The spirit of the season"

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1798

"'That we can feed this mind of ours, / 'In a wise passiveness."

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1800

"Teach thou my hand, with mutual love, to trace / His mind, as perfect as thy lines his face!"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

Date: 1800

"Julius! thou proof how mists of pride may blind / The eye of reason in the strongest mind!"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

Date: 1802

"Blest mirror! which can thus, with magic pow'r, / Give the rank weed the fragrance of the flow'r; / And from deformities,--without, within, / Spots in the mind, or specks upon the skin-- / Can all that's good, and all that's fair reflect, / And change to beauty, every dark defect."

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Date: 1803

The mind may feel a "smart"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1803

The "noxious poppy" is a "quencher of the mind"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1803

In one's "front and features" we may admire "Nature unwither'd and a mind entire"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1803

A "mien majestic" and "dark brows" may show "The tranquil lustre of a lofty mind"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1804

"Stretch the Mind's Eye, and then behold, / Though circling Rounds thy Steps may tread"

— Collins, John [called Brush Collins] (1742-1808)