Date: 1774
"Reason, therefore, at once gives judgment upon the cause; and the vagrant intruder, imagination, is imprisoned, or banished from the mind."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1775
One may carry with him "all the flimsy furniture of a country Miss's brain"
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1767, 1778
"To human frames these structures seem akin, / With aspect fair, while reason rules within."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1767, 1778
"Here science, like the sun, see radiant rise, / With intellectual beam, through mental skies, / To gild, to gladden all th' improving space, / With taste, with candor, learning, sense, and grace; / To light up all the mind's remotest cells, / Where fancy fledges, and where genius dwells."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1790
"Persuaded that all things ought to be done with reference, and referring all to the point of reference to which all should be directed, they think themselves bound, not only as individuals in the sanctuary of the heart, or as congregated in that personal capacity, to renew the m...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1792 [1794]
"Your head's an auction-room of gauze and ruffles"
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1792
"Unknown, unfriended, to the Regal Bed: / For in the secret closet of her breast, / Constantia her imperial birth supprest"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1792
When human feelings may inspire the breast so that the "Mint of Nature" glows, "Virtue strikes her image on the mind"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)