Date: 1706
"Behold that! that!--more dreadful than Medusa, / It drives my Soul back to her inmost Seats, / And freezes every stiff'ning Limb to Marble."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"The most, such Iron Hearts we are, and such / The base Barbarity of Humane Kind, / Hooting and Railing, and with Villainous Hands / Gathering the Filth from out the Common Ways, / To hurl upon her Head."
preview | full record— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)
Date: 1922
"(he taps his brow) But in here it is I must kill the priest and the king."
preview | full record— Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Date: 1922
"Though they didn't see eye to eye in everything a certain analogy there somehow was as if both minds were travelling, so to speak, in the one train of thought."
preview | full record— Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Date: 1922
"Tonight deftly amid wild drink and talk, to pierce the polished mail of his mind."
preview | full record— Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Date: 1922
"Fed and feeding brains about me: under glowlamps, impaled, with faintly beating feelers: and in my mind's darkness a sloth of the underworld, reluctant, shy of brightness, shifting her dragon scaly folds."
preview | full record— Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Date: 1922
"In the intense instant of imagination, when the mind, Shelley says, is a fading coal, that which I was is that which I am and that which in possibility I may come to be."
preview | full record— Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Date: 1922
"He laughed to free his mind from his mind's bondage."
preview | full record— Joyce, James (1882-1941)