Date: 1763
"With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, / Preys on herself, and is destroy'd by thought"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"Constant attention wears the active mind, / Blots out our powers, and leaves a blank behind"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
Dryden "Gave [Sigismunda] those griefs, which made the Stoic feel, / And call'd compassion forth from hearts of steel"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"With firm resolves my steady bosom steel, / Bravely to suffer, tho' I deeply feel."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"As if some fiend had snatch'd the love of kind, / And hell itself was lodg'd within the human mind"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1763
"I know not, madam, what I either hear or see, a thousand things are crowding on my imagination; while, like one just wakened from a dream, I doubt which is reality, which delusion."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1763
"The mind of man is, at first, a kind of tabula rasa; or like a piece of blank paper, and bears no original inscriptions, when we come into the world; we owe all the characters afterwards drawn upon it, to the impressions made upon our senses; to education, custom, and the like."
preview | full record— Fielding, John, Sir (1721-1780)
Date: 1763, 1770
"Yes, doubtless, steel'd--but still he show'd a heart, / As soft, as Cleopatra's softest part."
preview | full record— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)
Date: December, 1763; 1774
Bigotry "Wouldst pluck down Reason from her throne / to raise some fantom"
preview | full record— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)
Date: March 1763, 1774
"While with the motion of the pen, / Method pops in and out agen, / So, as I said, I thought it better, / To set me down and think a letter, / And without any more ado, / Seal up my mind, and send it you."
preview | full record— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)