Date: 1825
"Thus, when the fervid Passions cool, / And Judgement, late, begins to rule; / When Reason mounts her throne serene, / And social Friendship gilds the scene; / When man, of ripened powers possest, / Broods o'er the treasures of his breast; / Exults, in conscious worth elate, / Lord of himself--al...
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1833
"It was the coinage of the aged brain, / When sadness and the sense of loneliness / Oppress the weary heart!"
preview | full record— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)
Date: 1854
"The former have more exaltation, perhaps more nobility of sentiment, and less consciousness in their intellectual activity--less of the 'femme auteur', which was Rousseau's horror in Madame d'Epinay; but the latter have a richer fund of ideas--not more ingenuity, but the materials of an addition...
preview | full record— Eliot, George (1819-1880)
Date: 1992
"If your mind works like a cash register, anything you come up with is bound to be cheap"
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: April 9, 2013
"As I scan the statements of my memory bank for early deposits (it'd be a kid's memory bank account at a neurological NatWest where you're encouraged to become a greedy little capitalist with an escalating family of porcelain pigs), I see her in her hairy helmet, condescending on Nationwide, evis...
preview | full record— Brand, Russell (b. 1975)