Date: December 10, 1782; 1783
"Besides those minute differences in things which are frequently not observed at all, and when they are make little impression, there are in all considerable objects great characteristic distinctions, which press strongly on the senses, and therefore fix the imagination."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)
Date: December 10, 1782; 1783
"It may be remarked, that the impression which is left on our mind, even of things which are familiar to us, is seldom more than their general effect; beyond which we do not look in recognising such objects."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)
Date: December 10, 1782; 1783
"I only wish to impress on your minds the true distinction between essential and subordinate powers, and shew what qualities in the art claim your chief attention, and what may, with the least injury to your reputation, be neglected."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)
Date: 1783
"Thus have we proved it never happens, / That ornament and outward trappings, / Can make on the heart the least impression, / Much less secure a fix'd possession."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1783
"Learn hence, that husbands will be blind / To every beauty but the mind; / Great Venus there should hold her court; / should the Loves and Graces sport / There rapture beam'd in every feature, / Bound by that Cestus, called Good Nature."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1783
The senses may "sing and dance round Reason's fine-wrought throne"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1783
"O sheathe their hearts with triple steel, that they / May emulate their fathers' virtues"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1783
"He carries windows / In that enlarged breast of his, that all / May see what's done within"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1783
"The enemy fight in chains, invisible chains, but heavy; / Their minds are fetter'd; then how can they be free, / While, like the mounting flame, / We spring to battle o'er the floods of death?"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1783, 1838
"If Passion rule us, be that passion pride"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)