Date: 1774
"As in madness, the senses, from struggling with the imagination, are at length forced to submit, so, in sleep, they seem for a while soothed into the like submission: the smallest violence exerted upon any one of them, however, rouzes all the rest in their mutual defence; and the imagination, th...
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1774
"I find by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when the one suffers, the other sympathizes."
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: 1774
"Voltaire must be criticised; besides, every man's favorite is attacked: for every prejudice is exposed, and our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded."
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: 1774
"Sweet peace of mind! seraphic guest! / How long thy absence shall I mourn?"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1775
"An evil conscience is a shrew, and gives most shocking curtain lectures."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1775
"For woes on woes that anxious wretch pursue, / And on his soul fantastic terrors croud, / Who dares with eye distrustful stretch his view / Where Fate has spread her providential cloud."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1775
"With thee among the haunted groves / The lovely sorc'ress Fancy roves, / O let me find her here!"
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1776-1789
"Without that artificial help the human memory soon dissipates or corrupts the ideas entrusted to her charge; and the nobler faculties of the mind, no longer supplied with models or with materials, gradually forget their powers: the judgment becomes feeble and lethargic, the imagination languid o...
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Date: February 15, 1776
"The happiness of love, the felicities that flow from a suitable union, his heart shall be a stranger to"
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1776
"Oh! jealousy, / Thou tyrant of the mind."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)