Date: 1808
"No gossip in my faithful heart / Shall ever occupy her room"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1809, 1812
"Or through some fairy palace fancy roves, / And studs, with ruby lamps, the fretted roof / Or paints with every colour of the bow / Spotless parterres, all freakt with snow-white flowers, / Flowers that no archetype in nature own."
preview | full record— Graham, James (1765-1811)
Date: 1887
"You see, he explained, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."
preview | full record— Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
Date: 1887
"Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic."
preview | full record— Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
Date: 1887
"It is a mistake to think that that little room [the 'brain-attic'] has elastic walls and can distend to any extent"
preview | full record— Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
Date: January, 1888
"The past is all of one texture--whether feigned or suffered--whether acted out in three dimensions, or only witnessed in that small theatre of the brain which we keep brightly lighted all night long, after the jets are down, and darkness and sleep reign undisturbed in the remainder of the body."
preview | full record— Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
Date: January, 1888
"So that the little people who manage man's internal theatre had not as yet received a very rigorous training; and played upon their stage like children who should have slipped into the house and found it empty, rather than like drilled actors performing a set piece to a huge hall of faces."
preview | full record— Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
Date: January, 1888
"For myself--what I call I, my conscious ego, the denizen of the pineal gland unless he has changed his residence since Descartes, the man with the conscience and the variable bank-account, the man with the hat and the boots, and the privilege of voting and not carrying his candidate at the gener...
preview | full record— Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
Date: 1891
"And it did store the mind with furniture -- / In forms antique, forbidding peaceful slumber, / But morticed well, and fashioned to endure, / Hard to get into, or out of heads they cumber"
preview | full record— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)