Date: 1782
"Let heathen worthies, whose exalted mind / Left sensuality and dross behind, / Possess for me their undisputed lot"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: November 10, 1783
"He gives, what bankrupt Nature never can, / Whose noblest coin is light and brittle man, / Gold, purer far than Ophir ever knew, / A soul, an image of himself, and therefore true."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1783
"In lucent words my darkling verses dight, / And wash my earthy mind in thy clear streams,"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1783
"O sheathe their hearts with triple steel, that they / May emulate their fathers' virtues"
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Date: 1785
"Thus rust the Mind's best powers."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1785
Wisdom is a pearl "with most success / Sought in still water, and beneath clear skies"
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Date: 1785
"Mark now the proof I give thee, that the brave / Need no such aids as superstition lends / To steel their hearts against the dread of death!"
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Date: 1785
"Yet patient wait, till grace his will subdue, / The fire his dross, the spirit his heart renew:"
preview | full record— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)