Date: 1767
"His mind, however, was by pleasure rendered too volatile to suffer any thing to make a lasting impression on him; and he had still too many resources of happiness in his power, to give himself up to despair."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1767
"Whilst on the other hand, every affliction with which I have been visited, has imprinted a deep and lasting wound on my heart, which not even the hand of time itself has been able to heal."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1767
"Whilst on the other hand, every affliction with which I have been visited, has imprinted a deep and lasting wound on my heart, which not even the hand of time itself has been able to heal."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1768
"Maria, tho' not tall, was nevertheless of the first order of fine forms--affliction had touch'd her looks with something that was scarce earthly--still she was feminine--and so much was there about her of all that the heart wishes, or the eye looks for in woman, that could the traces be ever wor...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1769
"If my ideas of things are right, the human mind is naturally virtuous; the business of education is therefore less to give us good impressions, which we have from nature, than to guard us against bad ones, which are generally acquired."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1773
"It was chiefly in this manner of instilling sentiments, (as in the case of the charitable establishment I have mentioned) by leading insensibly to the practice of virtue, rather than by downright precept, that Annesly proceeded with his children; for it was his maxim, that the heart must feel, a...
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1773
"It was chiefly in this manner of instilling sentiments, (as in the case of the charitable establishment I have mentioned) by leading insensibly to the practice of virtue, rather than by downright precept, that Annesly proceeded with his children; for it was his maxim, that the heart must fe...
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1773
"The figure of his father venerable in virtue, of his sister lovely in innocence, were imprinted on his mind; and the variety of public places of entertainment, to which sir Thomas conducted him, could not immediately efface the impression."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1774, rev. 1787, 1779 in English
"Oh! that I could express, that I could describe, these great conceptions, with the same warmth, with the same energy, that they are impressed on my soul!" [Literal translation: "Oh could you only express, could you the breathe forth upon this paper all that lives so warm and full, that it might ...
preview | full record— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832)
Date: 1774, rev. 1787, 1779 in English
"Let us apply this to the mind; let us see how ideas work, and how impressions fix upon it, till at length a violent passion takes entire possession, destroys all the powers it possessed when at ease, and entirely subdues it."
preview | full record— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832)