Date: April 26 1870
"Why, as a volume seldom read / Being opened halfway shuts again, / So might the pages of her brain / Be parted at such words, and thence / Close back upon the dusty sense."
preview | full record— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Date: 1871
"[T]he mynd of man first of hyt selfe ys a clene and pure tabul where ys no thyng payntyd or carvyd, but of hyt selfe apt & indyfferent to receyve al maner of pycturys, and image."
preview | full record— Starkey, Thomas (c. 1495-1538)
Date: April, 1871
"Once acutely felt, I believe it is indelible; at least, it does something to the mind which it is hard for anything else to undo."
preview | full record— Bagehot, William (1826-1877)
Date: w. before 1641, 1883
"[H]is face was the frontispice of his mind, hee knew not how to dissemble a thought."
preview | full record— Smyth, John (1567-1640)
Date: 1900
"Then from this hour deep on my heart engraved / Be all my duty needful."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)