Date: 1776

Oblivion may throw "Her dark blank shades" o'er your mind

— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)

Date: 1776

"When therefore the orator can obtain no direct aid from the memory of his hearers, which is rarely to be obtained, he must, for the sake of brightening, and strengthening, and, if I may be permitted to use so bold a metaphor, cementing his ideas, bespeak the assistance of experience"

— Campbell, George (1719-1796)

Date: 1776

"Hence the strange parade he makes with regions, and recesses, hollow caverns, and private seats, wastes, and wildernesses, fruitful and cultivated tracks, words which, though they have a precise meaning as applied to country, have no definite signification as applied to mind."

— Campbell, George (1719-1796)

Date: 1776

"Knowledge, the object of the intellect, furnisheth materials for the fancy; the fancy culls, compounds, and, by her mimic art, disposes these materials so as to affect the passions; the passions are the natural spurs to volition or action, and so need only to be right directed."

— Campbell, George (1719-1796)

Date: 1776

"But that kind of address of which I am now treating, attains the summit of perfection in the sublime, or those great and noble images, which, when in suitable colouring presented to the mind, do, as it were, distend the imagination with some vast conception, and quite ravish the soul."

— Campbell, George (1719-1796)

Date: 1776

"It is this which hath been so justly celebrated as giving one man an ascendant over others, superior even to what despotism itself can bestow; since by the latter the more ignoble part, only the body and its members, are enslaved; whereas, from the dominion of the former, nothing is exempted, ne...

— Campbell, George (1719-1796)

Date: 1776

"Thus, language and thought, like body and soul, are made to correspond, and the qualities of the one exactly to co-operate with those of the other."

— Campbell, George (1719-1796)

Date: 1776

"And yet the Percipient cannot restrain the whole Interiour Correspondent System from striking at all; so as to cause Universal Stillness in the Cranium, (unless perhaps for a mere Moment;) because it must intend it at least; and Intending implies Thinking; and Thinking, Pulsation:--So that to ta...

— Applegarth, Robert (fl. 1776)

Date: 1777

"Stand to your guns! my hearts of oak, / Let not a word on board be spoke."

— Thomas Carter (c. 1735, d. 1804)

Date: 1777

"The consciousness of what I mean by this letter to reveal, hangs like guilt upon my mind; therefore it is that I have so long delayed writing."

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)