Date: 1781
"It cannot be said that he made use of his abilities for the direction of his own conduct: an irregular and dissipated manner of life had made him the slave of every passion that happened to be excited by the presence of its object, and that slavery to his passions reciprocally produced a life ir...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1781
"His temper was, in consequence of the dominion of his passions, uncertain and capricious: he was easily engaged, and easily disgusted; but he is accused of retaining his hatred more tenaciously than his benevolence."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1781
"Insulted Reason fled the grov'ling soul, / For Fear to guide, and visions to control: / But now, when Reason has assumed her throne, / She, in her turn, demands to reign alone"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1781
Reason may reject "all that lies beyond her view / And being judge, will be a witness too"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1782
"Till then, old red-nos'd Wilson's art / Will hold its empire o'er my heart."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1782
"Say! wilt Thou listen to his weaker strains, / Who pants to range round Fancy's rich domains; / To vindicate her empire, and disown / Proud System, seated on her injur'd throne?"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
"Let Critic Reason all her light diffuse / O'er the wide empire of this injur'd [Epic] Muse"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
"A strong sense of DUTY, a fervent desire to ACT RIGHT, were the ruling characteristics of her mind: her affluence she therefore considered as a debt contracted with the poor, and her independence, as a tie upon her liberality to pay it with interest."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"'Put me, if you please, to some trial!' cried Cecilia, with the virtuous courage of a self-acquitting conscience."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"All that pride could demand, and all to which ambition could aspire, all that happiness could cover or the most scrupulous delicacy exact, in her I found united; and while my heart was enslaved by her charms, my understanding exulted in its fetters."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)