Date: 1822
"That he may stray league after league some great birthplace to find / And keep his vision clear from speck, his inward sight unblind. "
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1822
"But to proceed, the mind's keen eye / Of Squeezing Jack, thought he could spy / In our Quæ Genus that quick sense, / Which might reward his confidence"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1823
The "venom'd shafts" of Cupid "empoison mortal joy," "Drawing from heav'n the soul of man to earth, / With foul alloy debasing purest treasure."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: November 1824
"Surely it is no exaggeration to say that no external advantage is to be compared with that purification of the intellectual eye which gives us to contemplate the infinite wealth of the mental world, all the hoarded treasures of its primeval dynasties, all the shapeless ore of its yet unexplored ...
preview | full record— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800-1859)
Date: January 8, 1824
"The string you touched in your last truly kind letter has been vibrating ever since, and making music most delightful to a parent's mental ear; an organ not commonly noticed, but which is full as much in daily exercise as the mind's eye of which we speak so familiarly."
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Date: 1831
"In the ruminations of the inner man, and the dissecting our thoughts and desires, we employ our intellectual arithmetic, we add, and subtract, and multiply, and divide, without asking the aid, without adverting to the existence, of our joints and members"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
"He does not think it worth his while under these circumstances, to 'gird up the loins of his mind.'"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
"Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1835-7
Romney is an expert and can trace "The mind's impression too on every face"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1838 (published posthumously)
"I say, therefore that to the [GREEK] hegemonicon in every man, and indeed that which is properly we ourselves, (we rather having those other things of necessary nature than being them), is the soul as comprehending itself, all its concerns and interests, its abilities and capacities, and holding...
preview | full record— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)