Date: 1797, 1810
"For pressure but new-springs the generous mind; /As gold by Vulcan's torture is refined."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1797
"To come a little closer to the point, we strongly suspect the fancy's coinage in this affair, and that he is, bona fide, the offspring of a Bristol brain, instead of a province of Persia."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: February 19, 1798
"Whether material substance unrefined, / Owns the strong impulse of instinctive mind, / Which to one centre points diverging lines, / Confounds, refracts, invig'rates, and combines?"
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: 1798
"Law and Reason's Empire to the skies" may "On the firm base of British freedom rise"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1798
"For scenes that frequent views of death impart, / Nerve the bold arm, and steel the manly heart"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1798
"He sticks to his text I find; for he always begins his sermons by telling me what fine things I could do, if I would but give my soul elbow room"
preview | full record— Brand, Hannah (d. 1821); Philippe Héricault Destouches (1680-1754)
Date: 1798
"O reader! had you in your mind / Such stores as silent thought can bring."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1780, 1798
"What can the youth in fancy's mirror view / Save her, the maid that shines in all reveal'd?"
preview | full record— Wieland, Christoph Martin (1733-1813); Sotheby, Richard (1757-1833)
Date: 1794, 1796, 1797, rev. 1798
"Where'er they rov'd, young Fancy and the Muse / Wav'd high their mirror of a thousand hues."
preview | full record— Mathias, Thomas James (1753/4-1835)