Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Where'er Imagination's mirror turn'd / Despair's black figure in its focus burn'd."

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Yet Wit, and Wisdom, Folly's shame to shun, / Will say 'tis heavenly Moonshine, not the Sun-- / Not suffer Pride to praise its feeble glow, / Beyond Heav'n's brighter beams which blaze below; / But like a Lamp, or Candle, keep its place, / To light Man's Mind with Truths of terrene Race."

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Nor, while its light dispels each dreary doubt, / To put the heavenly lamp of Reason out, / But trim, and feed it, that its friendly aids, / May shape his track thro' Time's untrodden shades"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"The common Sense of faithful Christians flout, / And puff Heav'n-lighted lamps of Reason, out!"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Should Reason trim her lamp of heavenly light, / To show such shameless, rash, example right"?

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Confined, in silence, he conferr'd alone / With Understanding, on his mental Throne"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

One may confer alone, "Amidst Imagination's throngs of thought, / And fairy broods by procreant Fancy brought;"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Reason, at his right hand, her place maintain'd, / And all her faithful groups full audience gain'd"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

" Judgment sat and heard each honest plea, / And fix'd each Verdict with his firm Decree"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

One may "with the sails of Fancy, all unfurl'd, / Run his wild Course amidst a carnal World"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)