Date: 1788-89
"The former [Platonic philosophy] fills the soul with intelligible light, breaks her lethargic fetters, and elevates her to the principle of things; the latter [Lockean philosophy] clouds the intellectual eye of the soul, by increasing her oblivion, strengthens her corporeal bands, and hurries he...
preview | full record— Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835)
Date: 1791
The mind may be oppress'd with "weight of care"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
The mind may feel "Terrour and consternation"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
One may be as graceful in port and noble in stature as one is in mind discrete
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1792
"Curs'd lethargy of the soul! ... that chain'd my better judgement, cramp'd all my strength of mind--ruin'd all my prospects."
preview | full record— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1792
"But is it not most unjust --nay cruel, to condemn a man because he is so unfortunate as to be the victim of disease? May not a great soul inhabit a foul carcase?"
preview | full record— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1796
"Fy! you are horrid people! we lacerate our bodies; you, your souls.---We believe that the scars on our faces add to our beauty; you consider your vices as ornaments."
preview | full record— Anonymous; Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1796
"None! You cannot wash my face white, or I his conscience."
preview | full record— Anonymous; Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1798
Prejudices "are like old Wounds! when the weather changes they still smart"
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)