Date: 1760-7
"I was but ten years old when this happened;--but whether it was, that the action itself was more in unison to my nerves at that age of pity, which instantly set my whole frame into one vibration of most pleasurable sensation;--or how far the manner and expression of it might go towards it;--or i...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1762
"A multitude of objects crowding into the mind at once, disturb the attention, and pass without making any impression, or any lasting impression."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1762
"The like false reckoning of time may proceed from an opposite state of mind. In a reverie, where ideas float at random without making any impression, time goes on unheeded and the reckoning is lost."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: August 1817
"Whenever any object takes such a hold on the mind as to make us dwell upon it, and brood over it, melting the heart in love, or kindling it to a sentiment of admiration;--whenever a movement of imagination or passion is impressed on the mind, by which it seeks to prolong and repeat the emotion, ...
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)