Date: 1754
"Intellect, the artificer, works lamely without his proper instrument, sense; which is the case when he works on moral ideas."
preview | full record— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
Date: 1755
"Ideas of the same race, though not exactly alike, are sometimes so little different, that no words can express the dissimilitude, though the mind easily perceives it, when they are exhibited together; and sometimes there is such a confusion of acceptations, that discernment is wearied, and disti...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1746, 1757
"If Pity be no Stranger to thy Breast, / (As sure it should not to a Breast like thine, / Soft as the Swanny Down!) relenting, hear"
preview | full record— Thompson, William (bap. 1712, d.c. 1766)
Date: 1757
"Let heav'n-born Mercy ever fill thy Breast, / And Truth be there an ever constant Guest."
preview | full record— Arnold, Cornelius (b. 1714, d. in or after 1758?)
Date: w. 1755-1757, 1768
Unborn ages may crowd on the soul
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1759
"Therefore dive deep into thy bosom; learn the depth, extent, biass, and full fort of thy mind; contract full intimacy with the Stranger within thee; excite, and cherish every spark of Intellectual light and heat, however smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark m...
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1759
"Peaceful virtues" dwell within the "sacred cell" of the heart
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1759
"With what a gust do we retire to our disinterested, and immortal friends in our closet, and find our minds, when applied to some favourite theme, as naturally, and as easily quieted, and refreshed, as a peevish child (and peevish children are we all till we fall asleep) when laid to the breast?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1759
"He shewed, with great strength of sentiment, and variety of illustration, that human nature is degraded and debased, when the lower faculties predominate over the higher; that when fancy, the parent of passion, usurps the dominion of the mind, nothing ensues but the natural effect of unlawful go...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1759
"With regard to the moral world, conscience, with regard to the intellectual, genius, is that god within."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)