Date: 1768
"I vow, I never had my affections more tenderly awakened; or do I remember an incident in my life, where the dissipated spirits, to which my reason had been a bubble, were so suddenly call'd home."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1768
"When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it, to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rose-buds of delights; and having taken a few turns in it, come back strengthen'd and refresh'd."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1768
"Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions, tell me, what trespass is it that man should have them?"
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1769
A debt of gratitude to parents is "stamp'd upon our frames; In polish'd minds it shines the most"
preview | full record— Reed, Joseph (1723-1787)
Date: 1769
"Your beauteous looks inspire my mind / With passion of the purest kind: / No selfish views my bosom sway, / But all is love without allay."
preview | full record— Reed, Joseph (1723-1787)
Date: 1770
"Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, / The soul adopts and owns their firstborn sway; / Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, / Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1772
"On his worn Pallet, now, view him reclin'd; / Terrifick Visions haunt his tortur'd Mind."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1772
"Thus, female Minds, with Knowlege fraught, / Are just and liberal Notions taught; / Through Wisdom's Glass their Foibles view'd, / Stand self-convicted, and subdued: / No more Caprice their Conduct rules; / No more the Prey of Rakes, and Fools; / Their Souls, with Truth and Honour charm'd, / Are...
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1772
"The Eye, that Orb of Light, which shews / The Features of the Mind, / Distinct, as faithful Mirrours yield / The Forms of human Kind."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1774
"While awake, and in health, this busy principle [the imagination] cannot much delude us: it may build castles in the air, and raise a thousand phantoms before us; but we have every one of the senses alive, to bear testimony to its falsehood."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)