Date: 1813
"O Spirit! through the sense / By which thy inner nature was apprised / Of outward shows, vague dreams have rolled, / And varied reminiscences have waked / Tablets that never fade."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1813
"The Mind, that broods o’er guilty woes / Is like the Scorpion girt by fire"
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: November 10, 1813
"I by no means rank poetry or poets high in the scale of intellect. This may look like affectation, but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruptions prevents an earthquake."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1814
"The mind of a child is like the acorn; its powers are folded up, they do not yet appear, but they are all there."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1814
"Give me to send the laughing bowl around, / My soul in Bacchus' pleasing fetters bound."
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1814
A "ripening mind" may be "fitted for a throne"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
Shakespeare, "born for British minds alone, / To them has Fancy's boundless empire shewn"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814
Byron's "powerful voice, with varying tone, / Makes all the empire of the mind thine own"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)