Date: 1755
Fancy is engendered in the eyes, fed with gazing, and dies in its cradle
preview | full record— Hooker [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars / To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, / Is reason to the soul."
preview | full record— Dryden [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"When she rates things, and moves from ground to ground, / The name of reason she obtains by this; / But when reason she the truth has found, / And standeth fixed, she understanding is."
preview | full record— Davies [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"When valour preys on reason / It eats the sword it fights with"
preview | full record— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]