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Date: December 10, 1790; 1791
"But I am sure that mechanic excellence invigorated and emboldened his mind to carry Painting into the regions of Poetry, and to emulate that Art in its most adventurous flights."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)
Date: 1803
"Ah, how the human mind wearies herself / With her own wanderings, and, involved in gloom / Impenetrable, speculates amiss!"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1803
"And all the floating thoughts we find / Upon the surface of the mind."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
