Date: 1802
"Is prouder yet in sterling worth to shine, / Stamp'd by the friendship of a mind like thine"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1804
"Though with only one eye, yet a spark from that same, / Like a big brimstone match kindles up such a flame, / As to make my blood boil, while it causes a smart / Like the lamp of a teakettle under my heart."
preview | full record— Collins, John [called Brush Collins] (1742-1808)
Date: 1804
"And my breast, like a mutton-chop, broiling"
preview | full record— Collins, John [called Brush Collins] (1742-1808)
Date: 1807-8
"Thus with the show of reason, but with hearts, / By faction tainted, and by envy steel'd / Against their youthful leader, they had hop'd / By these inglorious councils to degrade / And tarnish his high fame."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1807-8
"Since, then, th' Eternal Pow'r has stamp'd each mind, / Pure and congenial, in one common mould"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1807-8
"Oh! had [Heaven] stamp'd upon the human mind / The mild forbearance, and the love unfeign'd"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1807-8
"So minds debas'd can torture gen'rous acts: / And thus, by terrors haunted, hunger-pinch'd, / Hag-ridden by the demon at their hearts, / Suspicious, tost from thought to thought, they watch'd / The lagging hours of night"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1817
A certain sense of right and wrong may be "kneaded in a mind so young"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1821
"Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow / Back to the burning fountain whence it came."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1821
And "if the seal is set, / Here, on one fountain of a mourning mind, / Break it not thou!"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)