Date: 1794
"In like manner many of our ideas are originally excited in tribes."
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: 1794
"As those which contribute to circulate the blood, and to perform the various secretions; as well as the associate tribes and trains of ideas, which contribute to furnish the perpetual streams of our dreaming imaginations."
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: 1794
"When we are suddenly awaked by any violent stimulus, the surprise totally disunites the trains of our sleeping ideas from these of our waking ones; but if we gradually awake, this does not happen; and we readily unravel the preceding trains of imagination."
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: 1794
"As he stood under its shade, and looked up among its branches, still luxuriant, and saw here and there the blue sky trembling between them; the pursuits and events of his early days crowded fast to his mind, with the figures and characters of friends--long since gone from the earth; and he now f...
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"Emily's image, indeed, still lived there; but it was no longer the friend, the monitor, that saved him from himself, and to which he retired to weep the sweet, yet melancholy, tears of tenderness."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"True Madam! But how hard to feign a merriment to which the heart's a stranger!"
preview | full record— Dudley, Sir Henry Bate (1745-1824)
Date: 1796
"Still, still my soul in memory's inmost cell, / Where images most dear, most sacred dwell, / With willing gratitude retains, reveres, / Thy faithful service to my weakest years!"
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: w. 1788-93, 1796 (rev. 1815, 1827, 1837, 1897)
"The dissipation of Blandford, and the disputes of Portsmouth, consumed the hours which were not employed in the field; and amid the perpetual hurry of an inn, a barrack, or a guard-room, all literary ideas were banished from my mind."
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Date: 1796
"Camilla remained in a state of accumulated distress, that knew not upon what object most to dwell: her father, shocked and irritated beyond the mild endurance of his character; her brother, wantonly sporting with his family's honour, and his own morals and reputation; her uncle, preparing for nu...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"He felt not the provocation of lust; no voluptuous desires rioted in his bosom; nor did a burning imagination picture to him the charms which modesty had veiled from his eyes."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)