Date: September 30, 1769
"A sage philosopher, to try / What pupil saw with reason's eye,"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1770
"Excursive thought" may "Stand still a moment, and by reason taught / Judge rightly, with strict eye thyself survey"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1770
"I could not look upon his mangled corse: / I saw his mangled corse in my mind's eye."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1772-1781
"Fond Fancy's eye, / That inly gives locality and form / To what she prizes best, full oft pervades / Those hidden caverns, where pale chrysolites, / And glittering spars dart a mysterious gleam / Of inborn lustre, from the garish day / Unborrow'd."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1764, 1773
"And souls, however mean or vile, / Like features, brighten by a smile."
preview | full record— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)
Date: 1773
"There, whilst the vault resounds my plaintive sigh, / In deathful echoes, shall Despondence bring / The saddest visions on the mind's wan eye, / That ever wav'd on Fancy's blackest wing"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1773, 1810
"In my mind's eye with joy the heights I see; / For Middlesex! my soul exults in thee!"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1773
"What tho' no Sounds should penetrate the Ear,-- / To list'ning Thought the Voice of Truth is clear."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"His Wounds are healing, and His Griefs give Ease; / He, like a true Physician of the Soul, / Applies the Med'cine that may make it whole."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1775
"What numbers censure, but how few judge right, / On subjects, which demand the soul's keen sight"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)