Date: 1796
"John Bull, 'tis said, and 'tis most truly said, / Has evermore a windmill in his head: / Which still, as fashions, factions, fancies sway, / With every puff, is whiffled every way"
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: w. 1766, 1796
"Little minds / Do judge of great things, like the purblind gnat, / That deems a fly, a monster"
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Date: 1796
"[T]here is a Judge to whose all-seeing eye our inmost thoughts lie open"
preview | full record— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)
Date: 1796
"Ay: ay: this is none of your modern paper skull'd authors--old Geoffery's head is sound"
preview | full record— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841)
Date: 1796
"Yet on the youthful mind th' impression cast / Of ancient glory shall for ever last."
preview | full record— Falconer, William (bap. 1732, d. 1770)
Date: 1796
"No drug, nor juice of all the acid tribe, / Can move the Tints, which Glassy Pores imbibe; / So no mean prejudice, no bribes, nor art, / Efface th' Impressions of an Upright Heart."
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Date: 1796
"Thus Books are intellectual Aliment drest / For every appetite of every guest."
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Date: 1796
"Too well, fair youth! thy lib'ral heart he knew; / A heart to Nature's warm impressions true!"
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Date: 1796
"A plague on stoicks! / I cannot hoop my heart about with iron, / Like an old beer-butt"
preview | full record— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)
Date: 1796
The actor " Miss Farren, too, who might animate any thing but a soul of lead, and a face of iron, experienced the same fate" (the fate of being paired with a dull actor)
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