Date: 1792
"I must steel my heart, Fairfax, when I go to the encounter; must recapitulate all my wrongs."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Date: 1792
"I know it to be folly, and I will endeavour to steel my heart against this as well as other mistakes."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Date: 1792
"Thus degraded, her reason, her misty reason! is employed rather to burnish than to snap her chains."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1791, 1792
"For thou to me canst sov'reign bliss impart, / Thy mind my empire--and my throne thy heart."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1792
"For any kind of reading, I think better than leaving a blank still blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1792
"I have just risen from a conversation which has made a deep impression on my mind."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Date: 1793
"There, train'd amid slaughter and ruin to wade, / They toil in the heart-steeling, barbarous trade."
preview | full record— Wilson, Alexander (1766-1813)
Date: 1793, 1797
"Then, while each hideous image to his mind, / Rises terrific, o'er a bleeding corse / Stumbling he falls."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1793
"Again, the only means by which truth, however immutable in its own nature, can be communicated to the human mind is through the inlet of the senses. It is perhaps impossible that a man shut up in a cabinet can ever be wise"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"How can you induce him to be dissatisfied with his present acquisitions, while every other person assures him that his accomplishments are admirable and his mind a mirror of sagacity?"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)