Date: 1782
Books may adorn one's "intellects as well as shelves"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
A people may receive the "transcript of the eternal mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
One may have a mind "Not yet so blank, or fashionably blind, / But now and then perhaps a feeble ray /Of distant wisdom shoots across his way."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1783
Children's "minds, like a sheet of white paper, are susceptible to every impression"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: w. 1782-3, 1801
Love's laws may be "written in the mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1783
"If the human mind be a rasa tabula,--you to whom it is entrusted, should be cautious what is written upon it."
preview | full record— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)
Date: 1784, 1804
"But his spiritual kingdom is not of this world; the throne of grace is in heaven; his laws are from heaven, and written in the minds of all his subjects."
preview | full record— Huntington, William (1745-1813)
Date: 1785
"Yon starry orbs, / Majestic ocean, flowery vales, gay groves, / Eye-wasting lawns, and heaven-attempting hills / Which bound th' horizon, and which curb the view; / All those, with beauteous imagery, awaked / My ravished soul to ecstasy untaught, / To all the transport the rapt sense can bear; /...
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1785
A ruined mind may be "A blank of Nature, vanish'd every thought / That Nature, Reason, that Experience taught."
preview | full record— Lovibond, Edward (bap. 1723, d. 1775)
Date: 1785
"I own thy image is engraven on my heart."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)