Date: 1821
"A godlike mind soars forth, in its delight / Making earth bare and veiling heaven, and when / It sinks, the swarms that dimmed or shared its light / Leave to its kindred lamps the spirit's awful night."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1825
"In this respect his mind resembled a well arranged volume; in which every subject forms a separate section, and each view of that subject a separate page."
preview | full record— Dwight, Sereno Edwards (1786-1850) and William Theodore Dwight (1795-1865)