Date: 1703
"The light of the Sun is not more grateful to our outward sense, than the light of truth is to the soul."
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Date: 1730
"No light the darkness of that mind invades, / Where Chaos rules, enshrin'd in genuine Shades;"
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1730
A "mimic gleam of transient light" may break through the gloom of dullness "and then they think they write"
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: December 10, 1788; 1789
"Sometimes indeed it happens, that he may be able to mark the time, when from the sight of a picture, a passage in an author, or a hint in conversation, he has received, as it were, some new and guiding light, something like inspiration, by which his mind has been expanded, and is morally sure th...
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)