Date: 1775
"My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; / And in my breast the imperfect joys expire."
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1775
Faded ideas float in the fancy like half-forgotten dreams
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
One may be so distressed as to be given "hydrostatics"
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
"But, O, my brother! if thou hast a heart / That is not steel'd with stoic apathy / Against the magic of all-conqu'ring love, / Beware of beauty's pow'r; for she has charms / Wou'd melt the frozen breast of hoary age, / Or draw the lonely hermit from his cell / To gaze upon her."
preview | full record— Francklin, Thomas (1721-1784)
Date: 1776-1789
"The influence of a polite age and the labour of an attentive education had never been able to infuse into his rude and brutish mind the least tincture of learning"
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Date: 1777
"My father was far from being so once; but misfortune has now given his mind a tincture of sadness."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1777
One may perceive "a tincture of melancholy enthusiasm" in the mind
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1780, 1781, 1788
"Thy simple diction, free from glaring art, / With sweet allurement steals upon the heart, / Pure, as the rill, that Nature's hand refines; / Clear, as thy harmony of soul, it shines."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1780
"For such men the city alone is the proper habitation; where every street and market-place is full of enjoyments; there pleasure enters in at every gate: through the eye, the ear, the taste, the smell; through every part and every sense she gains admittance, and not a path remains that is not wid...
preview | full record— Francklin, Thomas (1721–1784); Lucian (b.c. 125, d. after 180)
Date: 1782
The swell of pity may not be confined with "the scanty limits of the mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)