Date: 1752
"My ever waking Soul, / Sits brooding o'er a Train of Images, / That constant rise in terrible Array, / And shrink my Resolution into Fears."
preview | full record— Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784)
Date: Saturday, Aug. 3, 1754; 1756
"The use of these kind of Figures in Tragedy should be as free and bold as possible, and with Respect to Expression, no other Regard is to be paid to it, than to chuse such Words as may be most significantly picturesque, in order to have the more lively Effect on the Imagination, the Passions bei...
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1754
"All these are Reason's Treasures, Stores of Thought; / Reflection's unexhausted Funds, replete / With Matter for her own delightful Task."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1756
"Yet we have implanted in us by Providence Ideas, Axioms, Rules, of what is pious, just, fair, honest, which no Political Craft, nor learned Sophistry, can entirely expel from our Breasts."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1756
"Not only their Understandings labour continually, which is the severest Labour, but their Hearts are torn by the worst, most troublesome, and insatiable of all Passions, by Avarice, by Ambition, by Fear and Jealousy. No part of the Mind has Rest. Power gradually extirpates from the Mind every hu...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1756
"But the Passions which prop these Opinions are withdrawn one after another, and the cool Light of Reason at the Setting of our Life shews us what a false Splendor played upon these Objects during our more sanguine Seasons."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1756, 1766
"He would wink at the light he had, struggle to evade conviction, and make his mind a chaos and a hell"
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1756, 1766
"They will give us for it the despicable legends of fictitious saints and false miracles;--a history of diseases cured instantly by relicks;--accounts of speaking images;--stories of travelling chapels;--wonders done by a Madona;--and the devil knows what he has crowded into their wretched...
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1757
"It is rather the soft green of the soul on which we rest our eyes, that are fatigued with beholding more glaring objects"
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1758
"My mourning heart is melted in my frame / As wax dissolving runs before a flame"
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)