Date: 1818
"This language is not the less true to nature, because it is false in point of fact; but so much the more true and natural, if it conveys the impression which the object under the influence of passion makes on the mind."
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Date: 1818, 1859
"Now this is by no means possible, for as soon as we turn into ourselves to make the attempt, and seek for once to know ourselves fully by means of introspective reflection, we are lost in a bottomless void; we find ourselves like the hollow glass globe, from out of which a voice speaks whose cau...
preview | full record— Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860)
Date: 1819
The "Arab is as intimately connected with camel and horse as is body with soul"
preview | full record— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832)
Date: 1819
The master-passion is not always obeyed
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1819
Reason may "re-ascend her throne" after a burst of "salutary tears"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1819
The "war within, these passions in their strife, / If thus protracted, had exhausted life"
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Date: 1819
"A brother's warning on thy heart engrave"
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Date: 1819
"Such acts will stamp their moral on the soul"
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Date: 1819
"'Alas! how soon would doubts again invade / 'The willing mind, and sins again persuade!"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)