Date: 1776
"It is not more evident that the imagination is more strongly affected by things sensible than by things intelligible, than it is evident that things animate awaken greater attention, and make a stronger impression on the mind than things senseless."
preview | full record— Campbell, George (1719-1796)
Date: 1776
"It is sufficient that such things be hinted to the understanding, so that the meaning may be apprehended, it is by no means fit that they be painted in the liveliest colours to the fancy."
preview | full record— Campbell, George (1719-1796)
Date: 1776
"But who that has the least spark of imagination, sees not how languid the latter expression is, when compared with the former."
preview | full record— Campbell, George (1719-1796)
Date: 1776
"You will thus convert a piece of abstruse reflexion, which, however just, makes but a slender impression upon the mind, into the most affecting and instructive imagery."
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Date: 1777
"Her mind's a burning fire, / Where sudden thoughts, like wreaths of smoak arise, / And, parting from the flame, disperse in air."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: 1777
"Her shatter'd fancy, like a mirror broken, / Reflects no single image just and true, / But many false ones."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: 1779
"Our affections are indeed the medium through which we may be said to survey ourselves, and every thing else; and whatever be our inward frame, we are apt to perceive a wonderful congeniality in the world without us"
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Date: 1782
"Parisian paint of every kind, / That stains the body or the mind, / Proclaims the Harlot's art"
preview | full record— Logan, John (1748-1788)
Date: 1782
Those who wear "The Zone of Venus" "never know / To what enchanting charm they owe / The empire of the heart"
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Date: 1783
"But as his imagination was strong and rich, rather than delicate and correct, he sometimes gives it too loose reins."
preview | full record— Blair, Hugh (1718-1800)