Date: 1760-7
"But here, you must distinguish--the thought floated only in Dr. Slop's mind, without sail or ballast to it, as a simple proposition; millions of which, as your worship knows, are every day swiming quietly in the middle of the thin juice of a man's understanding, without being carried backwards o...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1762
"After rubbing her hands and feet till they were sore, suffocating her with burnt feathers, and half poisoning her with medicines, Sir Charles and her servants so far brought her to life, that after sending her attendants out of the room, she had just power to tell him, 'she had discovered an int...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"An idle mind, like fallow ground, is the soil for every weed to grow in; in it vice strengthens, the seed of every vanity flourishes unmolested and luxuriant; discontent, malignity, ill humour, spread far and wide, and the mind becomes a chaos, which it is beyond human power to call into order a...
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Date: 1762
"Mad with despair, I have sought all means of obtaining, what I imagined the only cure for my distempered mind."
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"I have now my love discharged the burden from my mind."
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"She sometimes thought what he said was just, but aware of her partiality, she could not believe herself an unprejudiced judge, and feared that she might mistake the sophistry of love, for the voice of reason."
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762, 1781
"Delusion o'er my Mind usurps Command, / And rules each Sense with Fancy's magic Wand."
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: 1762-3
"By tyrants awed, who never find / The passage to their people's mind; / To whom the joy was never known / Of planting in the heart their throne."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1762-3
"The senses all must homage pay; / Hither they all must tribute bring, / And prostrate fall before their king."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1762
"Therefore, I have no one notion, / That is not form'd, like the designing / Of the peristaltick motion; / Vermicular; twisting and twining; / Going to work / Just like a bottle-skrew upon a cork."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)