Date: 1779, 1781
"The diction, being the vehicle of the thoughts, first presents itself to the intellectual eye; and if the first appearance offends, a further knowledge is not often sought."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1782
"Faults in the life breed errors in the brain"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
"To captivate admiring Fancy's eyes, / She bids celestial decorations rise; / But, as a playful and capricious child / Frowns at the splendid toy on which it smiled; / So wayward Fancy now with scorn surveys / Those specious Miracles she lov'd to praise; / Still fond of change, and fickle Fashion...
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
"Rough annoyance" may rankle in the mind
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
The "anxious mind" may be racked by pangs
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
One may have a mind "Not yet so blank, or fashionably blind, / But now and then perhaps a feeble ray /Of distant wisdom shoots across his way."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
One may have a mind "Not yet so blank, or fashionably blind, / But now and then perhaps a feeble ray /Of distant wisdom shoots across his way"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: w. 1782-3, 1801
All the mind, "in all her faculties refined," may taste "happiness complete"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: w. 1769, 1784
Religion "'Tis fancy all, distempers of the mind / As Education taught us, we're inclined."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)