Date: 1781
"But as a Bow that's always bent / Hath soon its force elastic spent; / So, lest the over-burthen'd brain / (Which can't too great a weight sustain) / Should not so much rich food digest, / 'Tis sometimes good to give it rest."
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: 1781
"Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind / To stamp a lasting image of the mind!"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1785-7, 1791, 1792
"Thus a large dumpling to its cell confin'd / (A very apt allusion to my mind)."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1786, 1816
"In vain at glory gudgeon Boswell snaps-- / His mind's a paper kite--compos'd of scraps / Just o'er the tops of chimneys form'd to fly."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1787
"Fat is foul weather--dims the fancy's sight"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1788
"His verse as elegant; unspotted lines / Flow from a mind unspotted as themselves."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
"'Tis thus the arch deceiver, busy still / To ruin man, besets the female heart, / Insinuates evil counsel, and inflames / The hungry passions, that like arid flax / Catch at a spark, and mount into a blaze."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1791
"Speak, can the ghost of Conscience haunt thy mind?"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1792
Rude signs may be expressive of "moral sense / Stamp'd on each heart"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
"They bade retentive memory on their mind / Impress each image, in distinctive lines / That mock'd erasure."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)