Date: 1792
A passion may burst "from the grave, in evil hour" and hasten to its prey with fiercer pow'r and "vulture-like, with appetite increas'd" riot on the undiminish'd feast
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1792, 1810
"But would you (as Ithuriel, with his spear, / Struck the dire toad, at Eve's invaded ear) / Probe, with your searching pen, the mind's disease?"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1792, 1810
"'Oh! London! what calamities I see, / 'In my mind's eye," whene'er I think on thee!"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1792
"Another philosopher following the analogy of nature, observes, that as all mens faces are different, we may well suppose their minds to be so likewise."
preview | full record— Gilpin, William (1724-1804)
Date: 1792
"Her Heart a Stranger to Disguise; / Her Mind as perfect as her Face"
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1793
" When painful truths invade the mind, / Ev'n wisdom wishes to be blind, / And hates th' officious ray."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1793
"The tendency of all false systems of political institution is to render the mind lethargic and torpid."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"But it is certain that truth is adequate to awaken the mind without the aid of adversity"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"For that purpose, thoroughly understand it yourself, impregnate your mind with its evidence, and speak from the clearness of your view, and the fulness of conviction."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"It is not to the sound of intellectual health that the remedy so urgently addresses itself, as to those who are infected with diseases of the mind. "
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)