Date: 1703, 1718
"Guilt's infernal Gloom, and horrid Night" may "O'erwhelm [Man's] Intellectual Sight"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1731
"I am unpractis'd in the Arts of Court; / And my free Thoughts range open as my Eye-balls."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: September 27, 1746
"Painful reflection! poyson to my mind!"
preview | full record— Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743)
Date: 1763, 1770
"Yes, doubtless, steel'd--but still he show'd a heart, / As soft, as Cleopatra's softest part."
preview | full record— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)
Date: 1793
"From that time he was mortified at the court of Burgundy by the nick-name of the booted head. Comines felt the wound in his mind."
preview | full record— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)
Date: 1794
"[T]he thing in which my imagination revelled the most freely, was the analysis of the private and internal operations of the mind, employing my metaphysical dissecting knife in tracing and laying bare the involutions of motive, and recording the gradually accumulating impulses."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)