Date: 1780
"And tell our hearts the thing shall be, / And seal it on our conscience now!"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: ca. 1780
"Let Truth then, my dear, still dwell on your tongue, / From her maxims O never depart; / But give yourself up to her guidance while young, / Her precepts engrave on your heart."
preview | full record— Kilner, Dorothy (1755-1836)
Date: 1781
"Ideas of sense are but the first elements of thought: and the produce raised from these elements by the operation of the mind upon them is as far superiour to the elements themselves in variety, copiousness and use, as books are to the characters of which they are composed."
preview | full record— Rotheram, John (1725–1789)
Date: 1781
"May God write it upon all your hearts!"
preview | full record— Wesley, John (1703-1791)
Date: 1782
"The wise philosopher tells us, that the soul of man is rasa tabula, like a white sheet of paper, out of which it must be more than common art to erase the first impressions"
preview | full record— Grose, John (bap. 1758, d. 1821)
Date: 1782
A poet may "in robes of beauty to array, / And in bright Order's lucid blaze display, / The forms that Fancy, to thy wishes kind, / Stamps on the tablet of thy clearer mind"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
"You are much deceived; you have been reading your own mind, and thought you had read his."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Else would I tell you that more sacred than my life will I hold what I have heard, that the words just now graven on my heart, shall remain there to eternity unseen."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"[A]cquainted ere you meet that you were to meet him no more, your heart would be all softness and grief, and at the very moment when tenderness should be banished from your intercourse, it would bear down all opposition of judgment, spirit, and dignity: you would hang upon every word, because ev...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
Books may adorn one's "intellects as well as shelves"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)