Date: 1770
A judge may sit serene "Above all mists of passion"
preview | full record— Armstrong, John (1708/9-1779)
Date: 1773
"Her mind, pure and spotless as new-drifted snow, cou'd not so soon be tainted."
preview | full record— Hitchcock, Robert (d. 1809)
Date: 1778
If we may judge the inside of fashionable ladies' heads "by that without, they are confused enough of all conscience"
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Date: 1778
The heart like a bird to its nestling will fly, / And when by the weight of a parent its bending, / Yet wishes while constant to break and to die. / Like a bird in a snare, of its freedom bereft, / Still hoping and wishing releasement again, / 'Till clos'd in the cage the flutterer is left / To p...
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Date: 1779
"My mind's in equipoise, ready alike / To hold thee as my Lover, or my Foe!"
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"Those minds imbued by vice, with deepest stains, / Are often mask'd in forms almost divine-- / Deck'd forth in words, and looks, that Virtue's self / Might challenge for her own."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"If right I read, your mind in balance hangs / 'Twixt the opposing principles of good / And ill."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1781
Cold books "stamp but dead impressions on the mind"
preview | full record— Raspe, Rudolph Eric (1737-1794); Lessing, G. E. (1729-1781)
Date: 1782
"Have you shewn a jewel / Out of the cabinet of your rich mind / To lock it up again?"
preview | full record— Dudley, Sir Henry Bate (1745-1824)
Date: 1783
"To work, my hearts of oak, to work; here the sun is half an hour high, and not a stroke struck yet."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)