Date: 1803
The "noxious poppy" is a "quencher of the mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1803
In one's "front and features" we may admire "Nature unwither'd and a mind entire"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1803
A "mien majestic" and "dark brows" may show "The tranquil lustre of a lofty mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1804
"Stretch the Mind's Eye, and then behold, / Though circling Rounds thy Steps may tread"
preview | full record— Collins, John [called Brush Collins] (1742-1808)
Date: 1805
"Or, when deserted by the Nine, / Forc'd to elaborate the line, / To labour more, yet less to please, / In the Mind's anguish or disease."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1805
"When you, my Friend, in lucky hour, / Bestow'd the sight-relieving power; / A boon as useful as 'tis kind-- / Yet had no Eye but of the mind-- / Had I been deaf, and blind, and dumb, / For half a century to come, / That Eye, in vision bright and clear, / Would view your worth, and ...
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1806
The fancy may be sick (and borne on a grey goose wing to immortal fame)
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1797, 1806
"While shadows, blanks to reason's orb, / In dread succession haunt the brain"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1807
"The individual whose substance is the more advanced Spirit runs through this past just as one who takes up a higher science goes through the preparatory studies he has long since absorbed, in order to bring their content to mind: he recalls them to the inward eye, but has no lasting interest in ...
preview | full record— Hegel, G. W. F. (1770-1831)