Date: 1744
"Whence, then, those thoughts? those towering thoughts that flew / Such monstrous heights?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"Ye towering hopes, abortive energies! / That toss and struggle in my lying breast, / To scale the skies, and build presumptions there, / As I were heir of an eternity."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"Sense! take the rein; blind Passion! drive us on; / And, Ignorance! befriend us on our way; / Ye new, but truest patrons of our peace! Yes; give the Pulse full empire; live the Brute, / Since as the Brute we die."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1751
"Mankind would be in a perpetual reverie; ideas would be constantly floating in the mind; and no man be able to connect his ideas with himself."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1751
"A reverie is nothing else, but a wandering of the mind through its ideas, without carrying along the perception of self."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1751
"Frightful ideas croud into the mind, and augment the fear, which is occasioned by darkness."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1756
"Many Things have been said, and very well undoubtedly, on the Subjection in which we should preserve our Bodies to the Government of our Understanding; but enough has not been said upon the Restraint which our bodily Necessities ought to lay on the extravagant Sublimities, and excentrick Rovings...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1788
Humanity "Assists thy roving fancy in its flight, / To crown thy airy sallies with delight."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)