Date: 1791
A thought may occupy and haunt the mind
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
"Speak, can the ghost of Conscience haunt thy mind?"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1791, 1806
To Shakespeare's illumined sight was consigned "The rugged cavern of the Murd'rer's breast"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1791
"and my mother's mind / In doubtful balance hangs, if still with me / An inmate, she shall manage my concerns, / Attentive only to her absent Lord / And her own good report"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791, 1806
"Oh! horrid Night! / Thou prying Monitor confest! / Whose key unlocks the human breast, / And bares each avenue to mental sight!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1791
"I exclaimed to her, 'I am now, intellectually, Hermippus redivivus, I am quite restored by him, by transfusion of mind.'"
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1791
"The feeling of languor, which succeeds the animation of gaiety, is itself a very severe pain; and when the mind is then vacant, a thousand disappointments and vexations rush in and excruciate. Will not many even of my fairest readers allow this to be true?"
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: January 19, 1791
"But it is then, and basking in the sunshine of unmerited fortune, that low, sordid, ungenerous, and reptile souls swell with their hoarded poisons; it is then that they display their odious splendour, and shine out in full lustre of their native villainy and baseness."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: January 19, 1791
"His blood they transfuse into their minds and into their manners."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1791, 1794
"I foolishly thought, some few years since, that every sense of joy was buried in the graves of my dear partner and my son; but my Lucy, by her filial affection, soothed my soul to peace, and this dear Charlotte has twined herself round my heart, and opened such new scenes of delight to my view, ...
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)