Date: December 1790
"Man has been termed, with strict propriety, a microcosm, a little world in himself."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: December 1790
"[A]n immoderate desire to please contracts the faculties, and immerges, to borrow the idea of a great philosopher, the soul in matter, till it becomes unable to mount on the wing of contemplation."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: December 1790
"Go hence, thou slave of impulse, look into the private recesses of thy heart, and take not a mote from thy brother’s eye, till thou hast removed the beam from thine own."
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Date: 1791
"In his soul was the serpent coil'd round in his heart, hid from the light, as in a cleft rock"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1791
"This is that incense of the heart / Whose fragrance smells to heaven."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1791
"In the rich realms of polished taste, / Where judgment penetrates to find / The treasures of the unwrought mind, / Where conversation's ardent spirit / Refines from dross the ore of merit, / Where emulation aids the flame / And stamps the sterling bust of fame."
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Date: 1791
The mind may be oppress'd with "weight of care"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
The mind may be rent as when two adverse winds vex and blow the sable flood
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
Gods are "swift as the traveller's thought"
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