Date: 1819
"Writing! O, I should have written thousands of pamphlets by this time, if it wasn't that--that the first sentence is so damn'd hard to get over; but, unluckily, I have such a profusion of ideas, that, when I sit down to write, there is so much crowding and jostling among them, that, curse me, yo...
preview | full record— Poole, John (1786-1872)
Date: August 16, 1820
"My Imagination is a Monastery and I am its Monk--you must explain my metapcs to yourself."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1820
"Clothe it in words, and bid it clasp his throne / In intercession; bend thy soul in prayer, / And like a suppliant in some gorgeous fane, / Let the will kneel within thy haughty heart."
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)
Date: 1820
"And we breathe, and sicken not, / The atmosphere of human thought: / Be it dim, and dank, and gray, / Like a storm-extinguished day, / Travelled o'er by dying gleams; / Be it bright as all between / Cloudless skies and windless streams, / Silent, liquid, and serene; / As the birds within the win...
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1821
"The peaceful conscience" is "the heart's so cheering guest, / Which had--a rush for all the rest."
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1822
"He rose / Disturbed and frowning, for tumultuous thoughts / Crowded like night upon his heart"
preview | full record— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)
Date: 1823
"But at the desk Tipp was quite another sort of creature. Thence all ideas, that were purely ornamental, were banished"
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: 1825
Tender charities may reside in the "feeling breast"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)