Date: 1872
"No! the celestial Author and Creator / In those two volumes of the Book of Nature / Ordained for our instruction, represents, / By multiform but single elements, / One universe of sense, all that we know, / The visible world of instantaneous show / And tangible creation, hard and slow,The last r...
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: 1872
"At Shakespear's happy birth / With fire ethereal Jove his soul endow'd, / Then bade him spurn the narrow bounds of earth, / And sordid wishes of the grov'ling crowd, / That chain the free-born mind."
preview | full record— Laurence, French (1757-1809)
Date: 1873
"There thou sittest in thy wonted corner / Lone and awful in thy darkened mind."
preview | full record— Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)
Date: 1874
"Earth thus I stamp thy bosom rouse the earthquake from his den"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: Date Unknown
A nose of wax is a "true symbol of the mind"
preview | full record— Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866)
Date: 1876
"What art thou, Mind, that mirror'st things unseen, / Giv'st to the dead the smiles which erst they wore, / And lift'st the veil which fate hath cast between / Thee and the forms which are not, but have been?"
preview | full record— Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849)
Date: 1876
"His hands were raised on high-- / As, mirrored on his mystic mind, / Arose futurity"
preview | full record— Hogg, James (1770-1835)
Date: 1876
"'The enchantment works,' thought Merlin; 'this will do;/ I think the image on his soul is painted;' / And then the mirror suddenly withdrew"
preview | full record— Moultrie, John (1799-1874)
Date: 1785, 1881
"Brehm his own Mind survey'd, / As mortal eyes (thus finite we compare / With infinite) in smoothest mirrors gaze"
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
Date: 1883
"Soaring through wider zones that pricked his scars / With memory of the old revolt from Awe, / He reached a middle height, and at the stars, / Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank"
preview | full record— Meredith, George (1828-1909)