Date: 1793
"We must sharpen our intellectual weapons; add to the stock of our knowledge; be pervaded with a sense of the magnitude of our cause; and perpetually increase that calm presence of mind and self possession which must enable us to do justice to our principles."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1794
"I bring forth from my teeming bosom myriads of flames. / And thou dost stamp them with a signet"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1794
"Though it is not a direct article of the Christian system that this world that we inhabit is the whole of the habitable Creation, yet it is so worked up therewith, from what is called the Mosaic account of the creation, the story of Eve and the apple, and the counterpart of that story, the death...
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1794
"A train of gloomy ideas haunted her mind, till she fell asleep."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"Retired to her lonely cabin, her melancholy thoughts still hovered round the body of her deceased parent; and, when she sunk into a kind of slumber, the images of her waking mind still haunted her fancy."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"Such scenes are indeed, to the mind, like 'those faint traces which the memory bears of music that is past.'"
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"It brought gloomy images to her mind, but the view of the Adriatic soon gave her others more airy, among which was that of the sea-nymph, whose delights she had before amused herself with picturing; and, anxious to escape from serious reflections, she now endeavoured to throw her fanciful ideas ...
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"This letter brought many tears to Emily's eyes; tears of tenderness and satisfaction on learning that Valancourt was well, and that time and absence had in no degree effaced her image from his heart."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"The scenes of the Illiad illapsed in glowing colours to her fancy--scenes, once the haunt of heroes--now lonely, and in ruins; but which still shone, in the poet's strain, in all their youthful splendor."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)