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Politics of Author:
"Whig"
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Date: 1752, 1790
The gentleman "To Figg and Broughton ... commits his breast, / To steel it to the fashionable test
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)
Date: 1752, 1790
A mind may be "soft, tho' bright, like her own eyes, / Discreetly witty, gayly wise."
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)
Date: 1753
"When Flora sweeps the Table with a Vole, / What Breast so steel'd as Grief can not invade, / To see the Havock on her Beautys made!"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1754
"I may with the same Naïvité remove the Veil from my mental as well as personal Imperfections; and expose them naked to the World."
preview | full record— Hay, William (1695-1755)
Date: 1754
"Maecenas would laugh at any Irregularity in Horace's Dress, but not at any Caprice in his Behaviour, because it was common and fashionable: so a Man's Person, which is the Dress of his Soul, only is ridiculed, while the vicious Qualities of it escape."
preview | full record— Hay, William (1695-1755)
Date: 1754
"'Orandum est', let us pray, says Juvenal, 'ut sit mens sana in corpore sano', for a sound Mind in a healthy Body; and every deformed Person should add this Petition, 'ut sit mens recta in corpore curvo', for an upright Mind in a crooked one."
preview | full record— Hay, William (1695-1755)
Date: 1754
"A deformed Person will naturally consider, where his Strength and his Foible lie; and as he is well acquainted with the last, he will easily find out the first; and must know, that (if it is any where) it is not, like Sampson's, in the Hair; but must be in the Lining of the Head."
preview | full record— Hay, William (1695-1755)
Date: 1754
"If I cannot, draw out Cacus from his Den; I may pluck the Villain from my own Breast. I cannot cleanse the Stables of Augeas; but I may cleanse my own Heart from Filth and Impurity: I may demolish the Hydra of Vices within me; and should be careful too, that while I lop off ...
preview | full record— Hay, William (1695-1755)
Date: 1754
"Few Persons have a House entirely to their Mind; or the Apartment in it disposed as they could wish. And there is no deformed Person, who does not wish, that his Soul had a better Habitation: which is sometimes not lodged according to its Quality."
preview | full record— Hay, William (1695-1755)
