Date: 1791

"I will venture to say, that in no writings whatever can be found more bark and steel for the mind, if I may use the expression; more that can brace and invigorate every manly and noble sentiment."

— Boswell, James (1740-1795)

Date: 1791

"Every page of the Rambler shews a mind teeming with classical allusion and poetical imagery."

— Boswell, James (1740-1795)

Date: 1791

"I cannot allow any fragment whatever that floats in my memory concerning the great subject of this work to be lost."

— Boswell, James (1740-1795)

Date: 1792

Marks of mind are "Stamp'd on each countenance"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1792

"But the properties of the mind elude the frail laws of hereditary descent, and own no sort of obedience to their authority"

— Richardson, Joseph (1755-1803)

Date: 1792

"No, no, my heart of oak; I defy the power of gold to disorder my senses"

— Richardson, Joseph (1755-1803)

Date: 1792

"The variety of nature is such, that new objects, and new combinations of them, are continually adding something to our fund, and inlarging our collection: while the same kind of object occurring frequently, is seen under various shapes; and makes us, if I may so speak, more learned in nature."

— Gilpin, William (1724-1804)

Date: 1792

"Often, when slumber has half-closed the eye, and shut out all the objects of sense, especially after the enjoyment of some splendid scene; the imagination, active, and alert, collects it's scattered ideas, transposes, combines, and shifts them into a thousand forms, producing such exquisite scen...

— Gilpin, William (1724-1804)

Date: 1792

"Let all their thoughts be unconfined, / And clap your padlock on their mind."

— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)

Date: 1792 [1794]

A wife chosen from "the coarse, what groveling brood" will be in thought "barren and in speech how rude"

— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)