Date: 1788
"I feel the swelling raptures roll / In surging tides upon my soul"
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)
Date: 1788-89
"But on the system of Plato, they differ as much as delusions and reality; for here the vital, permanent, and lucid nature of ideas is the fountain of science; and the inert, unstable, and obscure nature of sensible objects, the source of sensation."
preview | full record— Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835)
Date: 1788
"In their frequent conversation, she observed that the very name of Emmeline had the power of fascination; that he was never weary of hearing her praises; and that whenever he thought himself unobserved, his eyes were in pursuit of her; or fondly gazing on her face, he seemed to drink deep draugh...
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"But in pouring her sorrows into the bosom of her friend she appeared to find great consolation."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
There are those "whom the traffic of their race / Has robb'd of every human grace; / Whose harden'd souls no more retain / Impressions Nature stamp'd in vain; / All that distinguishes their kind, / For ever blotted from their mind; / As streams, that once the landscape gave / Reflected o...
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1788
"When Passion's tides thro' mans' strong art'ries roar, / His heart resists them like a flinty shore; / But our frail frames, like mould'ring banks, give way."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1789?
The "placid current" of the mind may be bestorm'd so that "th' ideal billows, raging, rise"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1789
"The third, / More absurd, / Than the iron-fed bird; / And whose brains lacked juice like an over-squeezed curd, / Had nothing of value to give but her--Word."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1789
"A river may as soon be made to flow back to its fountain, as volitions can be exempted from the necessitating influence of motives."
preview | full record— Belsham, William (1752-1827)
Date: 1789
"But if it means the mental energy preceding and producing volition, it is then plainly equivalent to the term motive, and the question is reduced to a mere verbal controversy; for this mental energy, denoting only a particular disposition and state of mind, must itself have resulted from a previ...
preview | full record— Belsham, William (1752-1827)