Date: 1794
"In every voice: in every ban, / The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1794
"As her imagination painted with melancholy touches, the deserted plains of Troy, such as they appeared in this after-day, she reanimated the landscape with the following little story."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"PETER taketh a Survey of the Furniture of their Heads."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1794
"To each heart pale fear's a stranger, / Honour bids us to the fight."
preview | full record— Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823)
Date: 1794
"No--no!--no man's temper's more mild, when taken at a proper season, but now his head's as crowded as a newspaper, and in as much confusion as your work-bag, what with the thoughts of his new varnish, and the expectation of Mr. Vapour,--I'll speak to him for you."
preview | full record— Hoare, Prince (1755-1834)
Date: 1794
"Therefore I take the mind or soul of men to be so perfectly indifferent to receive all impressions, as a rasa tabula, or white paper, &c."
preview | full record— Morell, Thomas (1703-1784)
Date: 1794, 1800
"Be hot with wrath, great iron-hearted Mack"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1794
"I have always made it a rule to treat those voluntary visitors [that bolt into the mind of their own accord] with civility, taking care to examine, as well as I was able, if they were worth entertaining; and it is from them I have acquired almost all the knowledge that I have."
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1794
"Every person of learning is finally his own teacher; the reason of which is, that principles, being of a distinct quality to circumstances, cannot be impressed upon the memory; their place of mental residence is the understanding, and they are never so lasting as when they begin by conception."
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)