Date: December 1790
"Go hence, thou slave of impulse, look into the private recesses of thy heart, and take not a mote from thy brother’s eye, till thou hast removed the beam from thine own."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1791, 1806
Reason may "triumph on her tranquil throne:
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1791
"In short, it must not be concealed, that like many other good and pious men, amongst whom we may place the Apostle Paul, upon his own authority, Johnson was not free from propensities which were ever 'warring against the law of his mind,'--and that in his combats with them, he was sometimes over...
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1789, 1791, 1799
"Throned in the vaulted heart, his dread resort, / Inexorable Conscience holds his court"
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: February 1791
"It has apparently burst forth like a creation from a chaos, but it is no more than the consequence of a mental revolution priorily existing in France."
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1791
"She bids the soften'd Passions live--/ The Passions urge again their sway."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1792
"Love sits triumphant on the heart--his throne! / And breaks those fetters bigots would impose, / To aggravate the sense of human woes!"
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)
Date: 1792
"In this style argue tyrants of every denomination, from the weak king to the weak father of a family; they are all eager to crush reason, yet always assert that they usurp its throne only to be useful."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1792
Shakespeare "placed aloft on Inspiration's throne, / Made Fancy's magic kingdom all his own, / Burst from the trammels which his muse confined, / And poured the wealth of his exhaustless mind!"
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)
Date: 1792
Sleep may be "exil'd from this tortur'd breast"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)