Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Thus he learns / Their birth and fortunes; how allied they haunt / The avenues of sense; what laws direct / Their union; and what various discords rise, / Or fix'd or casual: which when his clear thought / Retains and when his faithful words express, / That living image of the external scene, / ...
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1782
"If therefore the gloomy hemisphere of fact intrude a mournful prospect on the eye, at least we may travel the regions of imagination, where fancy's mirror can present clearer sunshine."
preview | full record— Dorset, Michael (fl. 1775-1782)