Date: 1761, 1790
"Our reason judges better than our eyes"
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787); Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1706-1760)
Date: 1762
"'Rest thou,' I said, 'behind my shield; rest in peace, thou beam of light! the gloomy chief of Sora will fly, if Fingal's arm is like his soul."
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1770
"I could not look upon his mangled corse: / I saw his mangled corse in my mind's eye."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1791
The mind may be oppress'd with "weight of care"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
The mind may feel "Terrour and consternation"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
One may be as graceful in port and noble in stature as one is in mind discrete
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)