Date: December 10, 1774; 1775
"Like a sovereign judge and arbiter of Art, he is possessed of that-presiding power which separates and attracts every excellence from every school; selects both from what is great, and what is little; brings home knowledge from the East and from the West; making the universe tributary towards fu...
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)
Date: 1782
The swell of pity may not be confined with "the scanty limits of the mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
Time is a river that fails to enrich the mind and "leaves a dreary waste behind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1783
"Some, indeed, there are, who, by a strength and dignity in their conceptions, and a current of high ideas that runs through their whole composition, preserve the reader's mind always in a tone nearly allied to the Sublime; for which reason they may, in a limited sense, merit the name of continue...
preview | full record— Blair, Hugh (1718-1800)
Date: 1783
"Elegant speculations are sometimes found to float on the surface of the mind, while bad passions possess the interior regions of the heart."
preview | full record— Blair, Hugh (1718-1800)
Date: 1788
"When Passion's tides thro' mans' strong art'ries roar, / His heart resists them like a flinty shore; / But our frail frames, like mould'ring banks, give way."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1789?
The "placid current" of the mind may be bestorm'd so that "th' ideal billows, raging, rise"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1789
"The third, / More absurd, / Than the iron-fed bird; / And whose brains lacked juice like an over-squeezed curd, / Had nothing of value to give but her--Word."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)