Date: 1781
"Let matter then be allowed to furnish the first materials; the enlightened mind, which by its operations upon these discovers truth, and pursues it through all its distant connections, must have powers as far superiour to that which gave the first impression, as PHIDIAS is superiour to the marble."
preview | full record— Rotheram, John (1725–1789)
Date: 1782
"A letter is the soul's portrait. It is not a cold image, with its stagnation, so remote from love; it lends itself to all our emotions; turn by turn it grows animated, it enjoys, it rests"
preview | full record— Laclos, Pierre (-Ambrose-François) Choderlos de (1741-1803)
Date: 1782
"Cheer up, my child of discretion--and comfort you self that every day will bring the endearing moment of meeting, so much nearer--chew the cud upon rapture in reversion--and indulge your fancy with the sweet food of intellectual endearments;--paint in your imagination the thousand graces of your...
preview | full record— Sancho, Charles Ignatius (1729-1780)
Date: 1782
"I shall fancy myself amongst you about the time you will get this--I paint in my imagination the winning smiles, and courteously kind welcome, in the face of a certain lady, whom I cannot help caring for with the decent pleasingly demure countenance of the little C-- Squire B--, with the jovial ...
preview | full record— Sancho, Charles Ignatius (1729-1780)
Date: 1783
"Secondly, The pleasure of Comparison arises from the illustration which the simile employed gives to the principal object; from the clearer view of it which it presents; or the more strong impression of it which it stamps upon the mind: and, thirdly, It arises from the introduction of a new, and...
preview | full record— Blair, Hugh (1718-1800)
Date: 1785
"Language is the express image and picture of human thoughts; and, from the picture, we may often draw very certain conclusions with regard to the original."
preview | full record— Reid, Thomas (1710-1796)
Date: 1788
"Worlds would I give now for that sketch of my Quintin, that my cruel brother deprived me of; but his dear image is engraven on my heart"
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)