Date: 1796
"Anxious to authorise the presence of his dangerous guest, yet conscious that her stay was infringing the laws of his order, Ambrosio's bosom became the theatre of a thousand contending passions."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"He looked forward with horror: his heart was despondent, and became the abode of satiety and disgust: he avoided the eyes of his partner in frailty."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1797
""But returning passion, like a wave that has recoiled from the shore, afterwards came with recollected energy, and swept from her feeble mind the barriers which reason and conscience had begun to rear."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1798
"I believe it may be admitted as a maxim, that no person of a well furnished mind, that has shaken off the implicit subjection of youth, and is not the zealous partizan of a sect, can bring himself to conform to the public and regular routine of sermons and prayers."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1802
"Far other ruins henceforth be your care: /Search for the failing towers of human kind, / And save that noblest edifice, the mind"
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1803
"In thee each virtue found a pleasing cell, / Thy mind was honour, and thy soul divine"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1803
"Friends, while they honour Stanmore's fair outside, / The grateful feelings of my Heart divide, / And, filling up my Soul's respective cells, / Each in its warmest mansion ever dwells!"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1804
"Her Brain enlabyrinths the whole heaven of her bosom & loins / To put in act what her Heart wills"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: c. 1804-1811, 1818
"For every human heart has gates of brass & bars of adamant, / Which few dare unbar because dread Og & Anak guard the gates"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: c. 1804-1811, 1818
"Terrific! and each mortal brain is walld and moated round / Within"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)