Date: 1800
"Thy taste ador'd, with Virtue's temperate flame, / Truth, as the fountain both of art and fame; / Yet no ill-founded rule, no servile fear, / Chain'd thy free mind in Fancy's fav'rite sphere."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1800
"Know, that the human being's thoughts and deeds / Are not like ocean billows, blindly moved."
preview | full record— Schiller, Friedrich (1759-1805)
Date: 1800
"The inner world, his microcosmus, is / The deep shaft, out of which they spring eternally."
preview | full record— Schiller, Friedrich (1759-1805)
Date: 1800
"They grow by certain laws, like the tree's fruit-- / No juggling chance can metamorphose them. / Have I the human kernel first examined? / Then I know, too, the future will and action."
preview | full record— Schiller, Friedrich (1759-1805)
Date: 1800
"So the schemes / Rais'd by fond Hope in youth's unclouded morn, / While sanguine youth enjoys delusive dreams, / Experience withers; till scarce one remains / Flattering the languid heart, where only Reason reigns!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1801
"For ever on my soul engraved / His glowing cheek, his manly mien."
preview | full record— Sawyer, Ann (fl. 1794-1801)
Date: 1801
The urchin's mind may be like "a weedy garden wild"
preview | full record— Sawyer, Ann (fl. 1794-1801)
Date: 1801
"Pursue the theme, and you shall find ... after summing all the rest, / Religion ruling in the breast / A principal ingredient."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)