Date: 1794
"How thoughts to thoughts are link'd with viewless chains, / Tribes leading tribes, and trains pursuing trains."
preview | full record— Bilsborrow, Dewhurst (fl. 1794)
Date: 1794
"With shadowy trident how Volition guides, / Surge after surge, his intellectual tides; / Or, Queen of Sleep, Imagination roves / With frantic Sorrows, or delirious Loves."
preview | full record— Bilsborrow, Dewhurst (fl. 1794)
Date: 1796
"Still, still my soul in memory's inmost cell, / Where images most dear, most sacred dwell, / With willing gratitude retains, reveres, / Thy faithful service to my weakest years!"
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: w. 1794, 1797
"'Tis only those of purer clay / 'From sensual dross refined, / 'In whom the passions pleas'd obey / 'The God within the mind, / 'Who share my delegated aid, / 'Through Wisdom's golden mean convey'd / 'From the first source of sov'reign good."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
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 [1797?]
"Some turbulent Othello's vainly try / To curb the green-eyed monster Jealousy."
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"The government of Head and Heart soon chang'd, / All former plans of thinking were derang'd; / Cupid's fond garrison was put to route, / Hypothesis march'd in, and Love march'd out."
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"Thou Friendship art the most exalted guest, / The noblest inmate of the human breast!"
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1799
In Fancy's "filial train," inspiration rides foremost and "Myriads of spruce ideas crowd the rear."
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)