Date: 1810
"In his mind's eye his house and glebe he sees, / And farms and talks with farmers at his ease;"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1814
"They have injured the finest mind!--for sometimes, Fanny, I own to you, it does appear more than manner; it appears as if the mind itself was tainted."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1814
"After being nursed up at Mansfield, it was too late in the day to be hardened at Portsmouth; and though Sir Thomas, had he known all, might have thought his niece in the most promising way of being starved, both mind and body, into a much juster value for Mr. Crawford's good company and good for...
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1819
"'And dreams are what the troubled fancy sees.'--"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: April, 1871
"Strong convictions gave him a kind of cramp in the will, and he could not act on them."
preview | full record— Bagehot, William (1826-1877)