Date: February, 1821
"This is the only true ideal--the heavenly tints of Fancy reflected in the bubbles that float upon the spring-tide of human life."
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Date: February, 1821
"I said to myself, 'This is true eloquence: this is a man pouring out his mind on paper.'"
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Date: 1832
"Yet distant countries / Not then, as now, communication held / By beaten tracks, and all the luxuries / Of easy transit, while the missive charge / Of the pen's register'd mirror of the mind / Was slow and interrupted"
preview | full record— Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837)