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: January 19, 1791
"His blood they transfuse into their minds and into their manners."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1796
"Thus Books are intellectual Aliment drest / For every appetite of every guest."
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: February, 1821
"The reliance on solid worth which it inculcates, the preference of sober truth to gaudy tinsel, hangs like a mill-stone round the neck of the imagination—-'a load to sink a navy'--impedes our progress, and blocks up every prospect in life."
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)