Date: 1755
"Where beams of warm imagination play, / The memory's soft figures melt away"
preview | full record— Pope [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"Malignant tempers ... will discover their natural tincture of mind."
preview | full record— Addison [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"The foolish old poet says, that the souls of some women are made of sea-water"
preview | full record— Addison [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"Now if the human understanding be, essentially and originally, a tabula rasa, susceptible of impression from the occurrence of every casual object, then the ideas it receives thereby will be the fountain, and, as it were, the materials of all its future proficiencies; and the number and e...
preview | full record— Sharp, William, Vicar of Long Burton
Date: 1755
"If ever gentle Pity touch'd thy Heart, / Now let it melt!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"Thou, superior to the Frowns / Of Fate, can'st pour thy Sunshine o'er the Soul, / And brighten Woe to Rapture!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"But Tears of Joy: For I have seen ZAPHIRA, / And pour'd the Balm of Peace into her Breast"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"So eager and intangled was our Hidalgo in this kind of history, that he would often read from morning to night, and from night to morning again, without interruption; till at last, the moisture of his brain being quite exhausted with indefatigable watching and study, he fairly lost his wits."
preview | full record— Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616); Smollett, Tobias (1721-1771)
Date: 1756, 1766
"In the softest, sweetest voice, she expressed herself, and without the least appearance of labour, her ideas seemed to flow from a vast fountain"
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1756, 1766
"[W]e go down with the current of the passions, and let bent and humour determine us, in opposition to what is decent and fit"
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)