Date: 1778
"As to my Fanny and myself, our souls had been created, like sympathetic steel and magnet, to leap together at first sight!"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1779, 1781
"Truth indeed is always truth, and reason is always reason; they have an intrinsick and unalterable value, and constitute that intellectual gold which defies destruction: but gold may be so concealed in baser matter that only a chymist can recover it; sense may be so hidden in unrefined and plebe...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: January 1, 1779
"There [to Heaven's Regions] when the soul, in search of purer day, / Loos'd from mortality's impris'ning clay / Shall swifter than the forked lightning dart."
preview | full record— Anstey, Christopher (1724-1805)
Date: June 5, 1780
"Some, though they wish it, are not steel'd enough, / Nor is each would-be villain conscience-proof."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1780
Locke expelled innate ideas by asserting that "disquisition and proof were the test of truth; and that whatever would not stand their touch, must be considered as base metal."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1780
"Pull away, my lads, pull away; that's my hearts of gold, pull away"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1780
"Then bravely on, my hearts of steel, / The haughty foe is vap'ring;"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1780
"I must steel my heart against the allurements of friendship and of pleasure"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1780
"My Potter stamp on me thy clay, Thy only stamp of love!"
preview | full record— Wesley, John (1703-1791)
Date: 1781
"But the difference is much greater between the ideas of sense, the materials upon which the mind first begins its work, and the truths produced by its operations, than between the rough marble, and the statue formed by the skill of PHIDIAS."
preview | full record— Rotheram, John (1725–1789)