Date: 1765 [1764]
"Manfred, though persuaded, like his wife, that the vision had been no work of fancy, recovered a little from the tempest of mind into which so many strange events had thrown him."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
There are men as variable as the wind, whose present temper it is as easy to decipher as it is to consult a weather cock
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1768
"I'm persuaded, to a man who feels for others as well as for himself, every rainy night, disguise it as you will, must cast a damp upon your spirits."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1774, rev. 1787, 1779 in English
"My mind is calm and serene, like the first fine mornings of spring."
preview | full record— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832)
Date: 1774, rev. 1787, 1779 in English
"My sensations change with the rapidity of lightning."
preview | full record— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832)
Date: 1774, rev. 1787, 1779 in English
"The whole force of these words fell like a stroke of thunder on the heart of the unfortunate Werter."
preview | full record— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832)
Date: w. 1782, 1786, 1816
"In the first ebullition of his fury, Vathek had resolved to rip open the body of Alboufaki and to stuff it with those of the negresses and of Carathis herself, but the remembrance of the Giaour, the palace of Istakar, the sabres, and the talismans, flashing before his imagination, with the simul...
preview | full record— Beckford, William (1760-1844)
Date: 1794
"Mr. Falkland's mind was full of uproar like the war of contending elements"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1796
"The cloud was now dissipated which had obscured his judgment; he shuddered when he beheld his arguments blazoned in their proper colours, and found that he had been a slave to flattery, to avarice, and self-love."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"He wrote these verses on his voyage to Cuba, when his mind was clouded by sorrow, and he forgot that he had a wife and children."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)