Date: 1775
One may be so distressed as to be given "hydrostatics"
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Date: 1775
The thunder of words may sour the "milk of human kindness" in the breast
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Date: 1775
A new light may break in upon someone
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Date: 1775
"[B]e assured I throw the original from my heart as easily!"
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Date: 1775
"That heart, by war and honour steel'd to fear, / Droops on a sigh, and sickens at a tear!"
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Date: 1776
"he more approaching to the testimony of our senses every philosophical solution is, the more perhaps is it conformable to nature."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1777
"Stand to your guns! my hearts of oak, / Let not a word on board be spoke."
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Date: 1767, 1778
"To human frames these structures seem akin, / With aspect fair, while reason rules within."
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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
"Envy in courts and cottages will dwell, / Nay climb to heaven itself, tho' born in hell: / In every living bosom lurks this pest, / But reigns unrival'd in the human breast; / On reason's throne usurps a thorny part, / And plants a thousand daggers in the heart."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)