Date: 1850
"Caught by the spectacle my mind turned round / As with the might of waters."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"Behold an emblem of our human mind / Crowded with thoughts that need a settled home, / Yet, like to eddying balls of foam / Within this whirlpool, they each other chase / Round and round, and neither find / An outlet nor a resting-place!"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: Date Unknown
It is difficult for a "powerful mind" to be its own master: "a lake wants mountains to compass and hold it in."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1854
"It was not the touch he needed most at such a moment--the touch that could calm the wild waters of his soul, as the uplifted hand of the sublimest love and patience could abate the raging of the sea--yet it was a woman's hand too."
preview | full record— Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
Date: 1854
"Her remembrances of home and childhood, were remembrances of the drying up of every spring and fountain in her young heart as it gushed out."
preview | full record— Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
Date: 1868
"Over me the billows roll, / Swallow up my sinking soul."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: April 26 1870
"For is there hue or shape defin'd / In Jenny's desecrated mind, / Where all contagious currents meet, / A Lethe of the middle street?"
preview | full record— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Date: August-November, 1871
"[B]ut the mind of Mr. Rossetti is like a glassy mere, broken only by the dive of some water-bird or the hum of winged insects, and brooded over by an atmosphere of insufferable closeness, with a light blue sky above it, sultry depths mirrored within it, and a surface so thickly sown with water-l...
preview | full record— Buchanan, Robert (1841–1901)
Date: 1903
"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds may take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of the brimming mind."
preview | full record— Wickham, E. C. (1834-1910); Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] (65 BC - 8 BC)
Date: 1906
"He felt that any systematic, scientific search of the premises would be impossible to him until his mind resembled somewhat less a sea across which a hurricane has just passed."
preview | full record— Bennett, Arnold (1867-1931)