Date: 1792
"Her Heart a Stranger to Disguise; / Her Mind as perfect as her Face"
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1794
"Whereas a due exercise of the faculties of the mind strengthens and improves those faculties, whether of imagination or recollection; as the exercise of our limbs in dancing or fencing increases the strength and agility of the muscles thus employed."
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: 1807
"For oft when on my couch I lie / In vacant or in pensive mood, / They [the daffodils] flash upon that inward eye / which is the bliss of solitude."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)