Date: 1787
"It is enough--my scruples are at an end--my prejudices, like clouds before the rising sun, vanish before the lights of your superior reason."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1788
"Within the heart which love illumes, / And blesses with his sacred rays, / If meaner passion e'er presumes, / It fades before the hallow'd blaze."
preview | full record— Cobb, James (1756-1818)
Date: 1792
Light may break in and great ideas may dawn upon the mind
preview | full record— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1792
"That sweet enchantress ... Can give to Fancy's work a blaze more bright, / Or Reason's steady lamp feed with new light."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1799
"Oh thou, our Father above, who surveyest the whole world with one glance, diffuse thy light into our hearts!"
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)