Date: 1817
"The lights and shades, in contrast due, / Relieve each other in the view: / Alike the moral painter's part / T'obey the rules of studious art; / Thus to attract the mental eye / With height'ning variety;-- / And as the pencil truly gives / Each form that on the canvas lives, / To make his pen ad...
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1819
Some dreams "more strong, abiding figures draw / 'Upon the brain, and we assert 'I saw;'"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1819
In sleep the fancy may place "A powerful likeness of a form and face" on the organs
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1842
"E'en the mind's eye a glassy mirror shews, / And far too deeply her bold pencil draws"
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)