Date: 1809, 1812
"Alas, her hopes are transient as that blaze, / And direful images her fancy crowd"
preview | full record— Graham, James (1765-1811)
Date: 1809, 1812
One may "leave the friends of youthful years, / And mould [his] heart anew, to take the stamp / Of foreign friendships, in a foreign land"
preview | full record— Graham, James (1765-1811)
Date: 1809, 1812
One may "mould [his] heart anew, to take the stamp / Of foreign friendships, in a foreign land"
preview | full record— Graham, James (1765-1811)
Date: [1805?] 1810, 1812, 1818
"Where bloody Butler's iron-hearted crew, / Doomed to the flames the weak submitting few"
preview | full record— Wilson, Alexander (1766-1813)
Date: 1814
"His powers of apprehension were so uncommonly quick as almost to resemble intuition, and the chief care of his preceptor was to prevent him, as a sportsman would phrase it, from over-running his game — that is, from acquiring his knowledge in a slight, flimsy, and inadequate manner."
preview | full record— Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)
Date: 1830
"No idle whims, no vapours fill'd her brain, / But Prudence for her youthful guide she took, / And Goodness, which no earthly vice could stain, / Dwelt in her mind; she was ne proud I ween or vain."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1859
" Not all this world's gay hopes, nor present charms, / Nor parents tears, nor a fond husband's arms, / Could stamp the least impression on her mind, / Or fix to earth a soul for heav'n design'd."
preview | full record— Skinner, Rev. John (1721-1807)
Date: 1859
"(For sure thy sire had not a heart of steel)"
preview | full record— Skinner, Rev. John (1721-1807)
Date: 1887
"You see, he explained, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."
preview | full record— Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
Date: 1887
"A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it."
preview | full record— Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)