Date: 1773, 1894-1895
"That He, to Whom all Love is due, / Engraves upon pure loving Hearts."
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Date: 1773
"If Reason must judge, and we two must agree, / Another, third Reason must give the Decree"
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773, 1894-1895
One may learn "her Lesson from within" and "There […] read the Characters imprest / Upon the Mind of ev'ry human Breast,-- / The native Laws prescrib'd to every Soul, / And Love, the One Fulfiller of the Whole."
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Date: 1773
"Within each willing heart [the Royal Ebor] rais'd his throne."
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Date: 1773
"Zounds! Sir, can you give any relief to a soul that is haunted by Furies?"
preview | full record— Graves, Richard (1715-1804)
Date: 1773
One's judgment may appear to be "sometimes almost eclipsed by the brilliancy of her imagination"
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Date: 1773
"I blot from my memory every other woman; those every-day beauties (as Terence calls them) who have nothing but their sex to recommend them."
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Date: 1773
Suicide might be allowable if a man "were under no obligations to any law, either of Nature, or Reason, or Society: not to mention the Revealed Will of God, by which all murder is forbidden."
preview | full record— Graves, Richard (1715-1804)
Date: 1773
"But reasoning with a man under the influence of any passion is like endeavouring to stop a wild horse, who becomes more violent from being pursued."
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Date: 1773
"The remembrance of my infant days, like the fancied vibration of pleasant sounds in the ear, was still alive in my mind; and I flew to find out the marks by which even inanimate things were to be known, as the friends of my youth, not forgotten, though long unseen, nor lessened, in my estimation...
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)