Date: 1798
"No neighbour mind serves as a mirror to reflect the generous confidence he felt within himself; and perhaps the man never yet existed, who could maintain his enthusiasm to its full vigour, in the midst of this kind of solitariness."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: February, 1798
"And what (I said) tho' blasphemy's loud scream / With that sweet music of deliv'rance strove; / Tho' all the fierce and drunken passions wove / A dance more wild than ever maniac's dream; / Ye storms, that round the dawning east assembled, / The sun was rising, tho' ye hid his light!"
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1798
"Our minds shall drink at every pore / The spirit of the season"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1798
"Some silent laws our hearts may make, / Which they shall long obey"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1798
"We'll frame the measure of our souls, / They shall be tuned to love"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1798
"'That we can feed this mind of ours, / 'In a wise passiveness."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1798?, 1868
"'Grave [the commandments] with Thy Spirit's seal / On the tables of my heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1798?, 1868
"On my heart the promise seal'd, / Wrote forgiveness on my heart!"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1794, 1796, 1797, rev. 1798
"Where'er they rov'd, young Fancy and the Muse / Wav'd high their mirror of a thousand hues."
preview | full record— Mathias, Thomas James (1753/4-1835)