Date: 1758
"It is more necessary for the Soul to be cured, than the Body: for it is better to die, than to live ill."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1758, 1781
"'Tis with our Minds, as with our Bodies, none / In Essence differ, yet each knows his own."
preview | full record— Hawkins, William (1721-1801)
Date: 1758, 1781
"Nay in Proportion lighter Ails controul / The mental Virtue, and infect the Soul."
preview | full record— Hawkins, William (1721-1801)
Date: 1759
"But why are Originals so few? not because the Writer's harvest is over, the great Reapers of Antiquity having left nothing to be gleaned after them; nor because the human mind's teeming time is past, or because it is incapable of putting forth unprecedented births."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1759
"The minds of the Schoolmen were almost as much cloistered as their bodies; they had but little learning, and few books."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1759
"But as good books are the medicine of the mind, if we should dethrone these authors, and consider them, not in their royal, but their medicinal capacity, might it not then be said, that Addison prescribed a wholesome and pleasant regimen, which was universally relished, and did much good; that P...
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1759
"The Lady, who now engrossed all Lord Dellwyn's Panegyric, did indeed deserve much more than he could pay, having risen to a Degree of Excellence far above his Lordship's Comprehension; his Mind's Eye, according to Hamlet's Expression, was so shortsighted, it could only disti...
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: September 15, 1759
"The hand has no closer correspondence with the Memory than the eye"
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: September 15, 1759
"No man will read with much advantage, who is not able, at pleasure, to evacuate his mind, or who brings not to his Author an intellect defecated and pure, neither turbid with care nor agitated by pleasure."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1759
"It is with Thoughts, as it is with Words; and with both, as with Men; they may grow old, and die."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)