Date: 1783
"He carries windows / In that enlarged breast of his, that all / May see what's done within"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1783
"The enemy fight in chains, invisible chains, but heavy; / Their minds are fetter'd; then how can they be free, / While, like the mounting flame, / We spring to battle o'er the floods of death?"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1783, 1838
"If Passion rule us, be that passion pride"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1783, 1838
If Reason rule us, it "bids us strive to raise / Our fallen hearts, and be like him we praise"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1783, 1838
"[N]aked vices, rude and unrefined" may "Exert their open empire o'er the mind"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: w. 1769, 1784
Religion "'Tis fancy all, distempers of the mind / As Education taught us, we're inclined."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: w. 1769, 1784
"Happy (if Mortals can be) is the Man, / Who, not by Priest but Reason, rules his span:"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1784
Cupid is "Ever gaining conquered hearts" by using Miss Hoyland's beauty as a bow
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1784
"Had I the dread necessity explained, / That with resistless force my freedom chained; / Tore the sweet bands, by virtuous passion tied, / And stampt our constancy with parricide."
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1784
"Louisa wrote under the immediate impression of her extacy to find Eugenio guiltless; that her mind was not sobered enough for reflection""
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)