Date: 1774, rev. 1787, 1779 in English
"Soon as I close my eyes, here in this brain, where all my nerves are concentred, her dark eyes are imprinted. Here--I don't know how to describe it:--but if I shut my eyes, hers are immediately before me like a sea, like a precipice, and they occupy all the fibres of my head."
preview | full record— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832)
Date: 1774, rev. 1787, 1779 in English
"A secret sympathy had attached her to him from their first acquaintance; and now, after so long an intimacy, after passing through so many different scenes, the impression was engraved on her mind for ever."
preview | full record— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832)
Date: 1777
"The consciousness of what I mean by this letter to reveal, hangs like guilt upon my mind; therefore it is that I have so long delayed writing."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1777
"Savillon's family, indeed, was not so noble as his mind; my father warmly acknowledged the excellence of the last; but he had been taught, from earliest infancy, to consider a misfortune the want of the former."
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Date: 1777
"Images of vengeance and destruction paint themselves to my mind, when I think of his discovering that weakness which I cannot hide from myself."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1777
"Your mind, child, (continued my mother) is too tender; I fear it is, for this bad world."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1777
"He appeared to feel in his situation that dependence I mentioned; in mean souls, this produces servility; in liberal minds, it is the nurse of honourable pride."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1783, 1785, 1789
"Indeed, the real seat of all superiority, even of manners, must be placed in the mind: dignified sentiments, superior courage, accompanied with genuine and universal courtesy, are always necessary to constitute the real gentleman; and where these are wanting, it is the greatest absurdity to thin...
preview | full record— Day, Thomas (1748-1789)
Date: w. 1782, 1786, 1816
"One of these beneficent Genii, assuming, without delay, the exterior of a shepherd, more renowned for his piety than all the derviches and santons of the region, took his station near a flock of white sheep, on the slope of a hill; and began to pour forth, from his flute, such airs of pathetic m...
preview | full record— Beckford, William (1760-1844)