Date: 1819

"'In dreams the chosen of my heart I view'd, / 'And thus th' impression day by day renew'd"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1819

"'Yes, all are dreams; but some as we awake / 'Fly off at once, and no impression make; / 'Others are felt, and ere they quit the brain / 'Make such impression that they come again"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1819

Some dreams "more strong, abiding figures draw / 'Upon the brain, and we assert 'I saw;'"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1819

In sleep the fancy may place "A powerful likeness of a form and face" on the organs

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1819

One may take "all my counterfeit address / 'For sterling passion, should the like profess?"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1819

"Nor cleed your little heart in steel, / For Nature bade the lintie feel"

— Gall, Richard (1776-1801)

Date: 1819

""But an accursed dream has steel'd thy breast, / 'And all the woman in thy soul suppress'd."--"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1819

"'For none could more by outward signs express / 'What wise men lock within the mind's recess."

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1819

One may behold "the mirror truth" within

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1819

"He was yet bending thoughtful o'er the fountain, / Which nothing did but sparkle, play, and curl, / And in the mirror of his mind was counting / Each brilliant drop which fell like orient pearl"

— Wiffen, Jermiah Holmes (1792-1836)