Date: 1756
"I hardly believe there is in any language a metaphor more appositely applied, or more elegantly expressed, than this of the effects of the warmth of fancy."
preview | full record— Warton, Joseph (bap. 1722, d. 1800)
Date: 1757
"Another tells how "melts his heart, 'Like wax'"
preview | full record— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)
Date: 1757
"But has not Hatred found a part, / Deep lodg'd the cavern of thy Heart, / Or started from thine eyes?"
preview | full record— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)
Date: 1757, 1758, 1771, 1777
"Before my wondering sense new phantoms dance, / And stamp their horrid shapes upon my brain."
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1758, 1781
"This Truth once stated, and the Soul, 'tis plain, Much on the filmy Texture of the Brain, / Much on Formations that escape our Eyes, / On nice Connections, and Coherencies, / And on corporeal Organs must depend, / For her own Function's Exercise, and End"
preview | full record— Hawkins, William (1721-1801)
Date: 1758, 1781
"Alas! All Souls are subject to like Fate, / All sympathizing with the Body's State; / Let the fierce Fever burn thro' ev'ry Vein, / And drive the madding Fury to the Brain, / Nought can the Fervour of his Frenzy cool, / But Aristotle's self's a Parish Fool!"
preview | full record— Hawkins, William (1721-1801)
Date: October 21, 1758.
"This counsel has been often given with serious dignity, and often received with appearance of conviction; but, as very few can search deep into their own minds without meeting what they wish to hide from themselves, scarce any man persists in cultivating such disagreeable acquaintance, but draws...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1759
"But why are Originals so few? not because the Writer's harvest is over, the great Reapers of Antiquity having left nothing to be gleaned after them; nor because the human mind's teeming time is past, or because it is incapable of putting forth unprecedented births."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1759
"Both are founded on the same bottom; on our ignorance of the possible dimensions of the mind of man."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1759
"That is, let not great Examples, or Authorities, browbeat thy Reason into too great a diffidence of thyself: Thyself so reverence as to prefer the native growth of thy own mind to the richest import from abroad; such borrowed riches make us poor."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)