Date: 1752
"Learning, he said, had the same Effect on the Mind, that strong Liquors have on the Constitution; both tending to eradicate all our natural Fire and Energy."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1768
"But there is no nation under heaven abounding with more variety of learning--where the sciences may be more fitly woo'd, or more surely won than here--where art is encouraged, and will so soon rise high--where Nature (take her all together) has so little to answer for--and, to close all, where t...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1773
"So forcibly indeed was Sindall struck with it, that some little time past before he thought of lifting her from the ground; he looked indeed his very soul at every glance; but it was a soul unworthy of the object on which he gazed, brutal, unfeeling and inhuman; he considered her, at that moment...
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1782
"Had they mingled in the world, fed high their fancy with hope, and looked forward with expectation of enjoyment; had they been courted by the great, and offered with profusion adulation for their abilities, yet, even when starving, been offered nothing else!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1787
"But her idleness led her into an error; for her mind, though inclined to laziness, sought for a more solid, and more active food."
preview | full record— Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Ésclavelles Épinay (marquise d') (1726-1783)
Date: 1787
"It is often a trifle; a little crumb; but it is those little crumbs that we must not suffer to accumulate till the next day."
preview | full record— Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Ésclavelles Épinay (marquise d') (1726-1783)
Date: 1788
"In their frequent conversation, she observed that the very name of Emmeline had the power of fascination; that he was never weary of hearing her praises; and that whenever he thought himself unobserved, his eyes were in pursuit of her; or fondly gazing on her face, he seemed to drink deep draugh...
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1794
"Adjoining the library was a green-house, stored with scarce and beautiful plants; for one of the amusements of St. Aubert was the study of botany, and among the neighbouring mountains, which afforded a luxurious feast to the mind of the naturalist, he often passed the day in the pursuits of his ...
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)