Date: 1763
"Explore the dark recesses of the mind, / In the Soul's honest volume read mankind, / And own, in wise and simple, great and small, / The same grand leading Principle in All."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"No--'tis the tale which angry Conscience tells, / When She with more than tragic horror swells / Each circumstance of guilt; when stern, but true, / She brings bad actions forth into review; / And, like the dread hand-writing on the wall, / Bids late Remorse awake at Reason's call, / Arm'd at al...
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"I recollect those dear moments of confidence and friendship engraved for ever on my heart."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1763
"The graces of that form are lost, those lips have ceased to utter the generous sentiments of the noblest heart which ever beat; but never will his varied perfections be blotted from the mind of his father."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1763
"What a day have I passed! may the idea of it be ever blotted from my mind!"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1765
"That fruit thy covenant may yield, / Which is upon my forehead seal'd, / And on my heart ingraft."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1765
"Do thou O Tablet, either both, or nothing; either let thy words and sense go together, or be thy bosom a rasa tabula."
preview | full record— Warburton, William (1698-1779)
Date: 1769
"What gratitude do we not owe to heaven! may the sense of it be for ever engraven on our hearts!"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1771
"For were that mind, what some suppose, a mere tabula rasa upon its first coming into the world, a pure and perfect blank, without one single impression; who can deny that it would be right, that it would be humane and wise, to make, in the earliest moments, those impressions upon it, whic...
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1774
The mind, "With not a character engrav'd, presents / One universal blank."
preview | full record— Roberts, William Hayward (d. 1791)