Date: 1817
"Let us cross-examine Hartley's scheme under the guidance of this distinction; and we shall discover, that contemporaneity, (Leibnitz's Lex Continui) is the limit and condition of the laws of mind, itself being rather a law of matter, at least of phaenomena considered as material. At the utmost, ...
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1818
"His heart leapt up as to its rightful throne"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1818
The faithful bless the Lord's "empire o'er the willing soul"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1818
"Such mirror is the human mind, / When calm composure gilds our day; / And such, alas! the change we find, / When ruffling passions mark their sway."
preview | full record— Park, Thomas (1759-1834)
Date: 1819
The master-passion is not always obeyed
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1819
Reason may "re-ascend her throne" after a burst of "salutary tears"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1820
"Fancy, high-commission'd:--send her! / She has vassals to attend her."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1820
"O, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle / Such lamps within the dome of this dim world, / That the pale name of PRIEST might shrink and dwindle / Into the hell from which it first was hurled, / A scoff of impious pride from fiends impure; / Till human thoughts might kneel alone, / ...
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1820
"Pity the self-despising slaves of Heaven, / Not me, within whose mind sits peace serene, / As light in the sun, throned."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1820
"Yet am I king over myself, and rule / The torturing and conflicting throngs within, / As Jove rules you when Hell grows mutinous."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)