Date: 1751
"Amongst the crowd of tormenting ideas, the remembrance, that she owed all the vexation she laboured under, entirely to the acquaintance she had with miss Forward, came strong into her thoughts"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1753
"Though the soul, like a hermit in his cell, sits quiet in the bosom, unruffled by any tempest of its own, it suffers from the rude blasts of others faults"
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Date: 1754
"Our simple ideas, and even our complex ideas, and notions return sometimes of themselves, we know not why, nor how, mechanically, as it were, uncalled by the mind, and often to the disturbance of it in the pursuit of other ideas, to which these intruders are foreign."
preview | full record— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
Date: 1754
"Intellect, the artificer, works lamely without his proper instrument, sense; which is the case when he works on moral ideas."
preview | full record— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
Date: 1755
"Ideas of the same race, though not exactly alike, are sometimes so little different, that no words can express the dissimilitude, though the mind easily perceives it, when they are exhibited together; and sometimes there is such a confusion of acceptations, that discernment is wearied, and disti...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1759
"He shewed, with great strength of sentiment, and variety of illustration, that human nature is degraded and debased, when the lower faculties predominate over the higher; that when fancy, the parent of passion, usurps the dominion of the mind, nothing ensues but the natural effect of unlawful go...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1762
"Nor as a transient guest depart, / But dwell for ever in my heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1762
" Far from the crowd / Of passions loud, / Thyself to me discover"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1780
"Tread down Thy foes, with power control / The beast and devil in my soul."
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