Date: 1755
"Love ne'er shou'd die: / 'Tis the Soul's Cordial."
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1756
"When I confess that I think this Notion a Mistake, I know to whom I am speaking, for I am satisfied that Reasons are like Liquors, and there are some of such a Nature as none but strong Heads can bear."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1759
"Some Readers read too much, as Gluttons eat, / These Flatulence produce, and those Conceit; / If you, by reading much, would Knowledge gain, / Think, while you read, or you will read in vain."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"Romance is, to the Mind, a noxious Feast, / Prepar'd by Art, to please a vicious Taste."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1761
"Dream on, till Vengeance wake thee, till thy Conscience / Bloated and swell'd, from Pleasure's guilty feast / Starts up aghast, turns suddenly upon thee, / And stings thee to the Heart."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1767
"The quality of which we are treating, wherever it is discovered, will afford such a delicious entertainment to the mind, that it can scarce be ever satisfied with a banquet so exquisitely prepared; satiety being prevented by a succession of dainties, ever various and every new."
preview | full record— Duff, William (1732-1815)
Date: 1767
"But however properly arranged those materials may be, and however thoroughly digested this intellectual food, an original Genius will sometimes find an inconveniency resulting from it; for as no man can attend to and comprehend many different things at once, his mental faculties will in some cas...
preview | full record— Duff, William (1732-1815)
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: December 14, 1770; 1771
"The mind requires nourishment adapted to its growth; and what may have promoted our earlier efforts, might retard us in our nearer approaches to perfection."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)
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)