Date: 1761
"When I view my children and their father about me, I fancy that every thing breathes an air of virtue, and they banish from my mind the disagreeable remembrance of my former frailties."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)
Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762
"He revolved the late adventure of the coach, and the declaration of Mr. Clarke, with equal eagerness and astonishment; and was seized with the most ardent desire of unravelling a mystery so interesting to the predominant passion of his heart."
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762
A sacred idea may be throned within the heart and "cherished with such fervency of regard, with such reverence of affection, as the devout anchorite more unreasonably pays to those sainted reliques that constitute the object of his adoration"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762
A woman may be "possessed of that vigour of mind which constitutes true fortitude, and vindicates the empire of reason"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1762
Grief may be subdued "by reason's empire shown"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1762, 1781
"Delusion o'er my Mind usurps Command, / And rules each Sense with Fancy's magic Wand."
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: 1762-3
"By tyrants awed, who never find / The passage to their people's mind; / To whom the joy was never known / Of planting in the heart their throne."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1762-3
"Within the brain's most secret cells / A certain Lord Chief Justice dwells, / Of sovereign power, whom, one and all, / With common voice, we Reason call."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1762-3
"The senses all must homage pay; / Hither they all must tribute bring, / And prostrate fall before their king."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1762-3
"Whatever unto them is brought / Is carried on the wings of thought / Before his throne, where, in full state, / He on their merits holds debate, / Examines, cross-examines, weighs / Their right to censure or to praise."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)