Date: 1778
"To melancholy thoughts awakes the soul, / And lulls the mind to contemplation's dream"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1782
"Parisian paint of every kind, / That stains the body or the mind, / Proclaims the Harlot's art"
preview | full record— Logan, John (1748-1788)
Date: 1782
The "anxious mind" may be racked by pangs
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
"O! ye better souls, / Ye nobler few, who slumber in your race, / Tho' well begun, and forwarded with hope, / Say, will you see a fellow-spirit lost, / Thus swallow'd in the ever-yawning gulf, / That frights the mental eye, and e'en appals / The man who firmest stands, nor lend your aid / To sav...
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1785
"In cities foul example on most minds / Begets its likeness"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
The mind may be pregnant "with some new theme"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
"All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil; hurts the faculties, impedes / Their progress in the road of science; blinds / The eyesight of discovery, and begets / In those that suffer it, a sordid mind."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
"Thy saints proclaim thee King; and in their hearts / Thy title is engraven with a pen / Dipt in the fountain of eternal love"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
The "eyesight of discovery" may be blinded by constraints
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)