Date: 1791
"As in filling a vessel drop by dy drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. "
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: January 19, 1791
"But it is then, and basking in the sunshine of unmerited fortune, that low, sordid, ungenerous, and reptile souls swell with their hoarded poisons; it is then that they display their odious splendour, and shine out in full lustre of their native villainy and baseness."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: December 10, 1790; 1791
"The sublime in Painting, as in Poetry, so overpowers, and takes such a possession of the whole mind, that no room is left for attention to minute criticism."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)
Date: 1791
"Johnson was much attached to London: he observed, that a man stored his mind better there, than any where else; and that in remote situations a man's body might be feasted, but his mind was starved, and his faculties apt to degenerate, from want of exercise and competition."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1791
"This is a strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere 5, that 'a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it;' for, notwithstanding his constitutional indolence, his depression of spirits, and his labour in carrying on hi...
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1791
"Every page of the Rambler shews a mind teeming with classical allusion and poetical imagery."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1792
"We mean not to bring it into competition with any of the more useful ends of travelling: but as many travel without any end at all, amusing themselves without being able to give a reason why they are amused, we offer an end, which may possibly engage some vacant minds; and may indeed afford a ra...
preview | full record— Gilpin, William (1724-1804)
Date: 1792
"Having gained by a minute examination of incidents a compleat idea of an object, our next amusement arises from inlarging, and correcting our general stock of ideas."
preview | full record— Gilpin, William (1724-1804)
Date: 1792
"The imagination of a painter, really great in his profession, is a magazine abounding with all the elegant forms, and striking effects, which are to be found in nature."
preview | full record— Gilpin, William (1724-1804)
Date: 1793
"It is necessary that the mind of a writer should be richly stored with anecdotes of all kinds."
preview | full record— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)