Date: 1801
Virtue may be a man's "eternal flame" or "ruling passion"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1802
"With my inward eye 'tis an old man grey, / With my outward a thistle across the way."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: September 10, 1802
"A Poet's Heart & Intellect should be combined, intimately combined & unified, with the great appearances in Nature -- & not merely held in solution & loose mixture with them, in the shape of formal Similies."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1809
"Could my ideas flow as fast as the rain in the store-closet it would be charming."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1810
"Fear was his ruling passion; yet was Love, / Of timid kind, once known his heart to move."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1810
"Friends, parents, relatives, hope, reason, love," may "With anxious ardour for that empire strove"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1810
"Our heroine fear'd him not; it was her part, / To make sure conquest of such gentle heart"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1810
"Love never made impression on her mind."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1810
"And these young ruffians in the soul will sow / Seeds of all vices that on weakness grow."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1810
"'All this experience tells the Soul, and yet / 'These moral men their pence and farthings set / 'Against the terrors of the countless Debt"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)