Date: 1810
"--Pity, of every generous heart the guest, / As that which dares each colder code refute, / And justifies the ways of man to brute?"
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1810
"Had Bethlehem's star, of humble swains the guide; / Of souls, unclouded with pedantick pride; / On thee benighted, beamed, with friendly ray, / With all the light of evangelick day; / Ideas, in thy brain, had held no dance / Of anarchy, thou citizen of France!"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: w. 1796, 1811
"Hence the same Charity, heart-cheering guest, / That burnt, with fervent flame, in Dryden's breast, / Inspirits mine"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1814
"Thus does the brain awhile conceive, / Its brilliant fancies, and believe;-- / And oh! those glowing hopes remain / A dazzling, yet deceitful train;-- / And many a liken'd image find, / Upon the mirror of the mind"
preview | full record— Reynolds, John Hamilton (1796-1852)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"How then should matron Mind, with filial fear, / Judge all the embryo thoughts engender'd there"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"What Spectres mad Suspicion might behold / Pilfering her property, in goods, or gold--"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
On might not trace "the mazes of her mystic brain / To mark what monsters such deep cells contain / Contriving constant schemes to furnish food, / For breeding Vultures' ever hungry brood!"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"Solicit Fancy from celestial flights, / To wander o'er the World for frail delights / And crowd Imagination's rooms, immense, / With what relates alone to Time and Sense!"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
One may confer alone, "Amidst Imagination's throngs of thought, / And fairy broods by procreant Fancy brought;"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1815
"Fancy will sometimes take the lead / And play its part in Reason's stead."
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)