Date: 1766-1769, 1956
"Only this more. The ideas--my lodgers--are of all sorts. Some, gentlemen of the law, who pay me a great deal more than others. Divines of all sorts have been with me, and have ever disturbed me. When I first took up house, Presbyterian ministers used to make me melancholy with dreary tones. Meth...
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1767, 1784
"Shall we, because we strive in vain to tell / How Matter acts on incorporeal Mind, / Or how, when sleep has lock'd up ev'ry sense, / Or fevers rage, Imagination paints / Unreal scenes, reject what sober sense, / And calmest thought attest?"
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1768
"The mind sits terrified at the objects she has magnified herself and blackened; reduce them to their proper size and hue she overlooks them."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1768
"I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1768
"I conceive every fair being as a temple, and would rather enter in, and see the original drawings and loose sketches hung up in it, than the transfiguration of Raphael itself."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1770
"Imagination fondly stoops to trace / The parlour splendours of that festive place."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1771
"Great Nature! workmanship divine, / What human thought can trace thy line!"
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)
Date: 1755, 1771
"For this, fair hope leads on the' impassion'd soul / Through life's wild labyrinths to her distant goal; / Paints in each dream, to fan the genial flame, / The pomp of riches, and the pride of fame, / Or fondly gives reflection's cooler eye / A glance, an image, of a future sky."
preview | full record— Cawthorn, James (1719-1761)
Date: 1755, 1771
"Passions, like colours, have their strength and ease, / Those too insipid, and too gaudy these."
preview | full record— Cawthorn, James (1719-1761)
Date: 1755, 1771
"Contrast them, curb them, spread them, or confine, / Ennoble these, and those forbid to shine; / With cooler shades ambition's fire allay, / And mildly melt the pomp of pride away; / Her rainbow robe from vanity remove, / Each pulse congenial with the' informing mind, / Each action station'd in ...
preview | full record— Cawthorn, James (1719-1761)