Date: 1818
Herald thought may be sent into a wilderness to dress an uncertain path with green
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1818
"My silent thoughts are echoing from these shells."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1818
"The Beings of the Mind are not of clay: / Essentially immortal, they create / And multiply in us a brighter ray / And more beloved existence"
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1818
"It is strictly the language of the imagination; and the imagination is that faculty which represents objects, not as they are in themselves, but as they are moulded by other thoughts and feelings, into an infinite variety of shapes and combinations of power."
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Date: 1818
"Her plan for the morning thus settled, she sat quietly down to her book after breakfast, resolving to remain in the same place and the same employment till the clock struck one; and from habitude very little incommoded by the remarks and ejaculations of Mrs. Allen, whose vacancy of mind and inca...
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1818
"It was no wonder that the General should shrink from the sight of such objects as that room must contain; a room in all probability never entered by him since the dreadful scene had passed, which released his suffering wife, and left him to the stings of conscience."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1818
"But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and therefore not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1818
"This was a painful consideration whenever it occurred; and eager to get rid of such a weight on her mind, she very soon resolved to speak to Eleanor about it at once, propose going away, and be guided in her conduct by the manner in which her proposal might be taken."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1818
"It is always good for young people to be put upon exerting themselves; and you know, my dear Catherine, you always were a sad little shatter-brained creature; but now you must have been forced to have your wits about you, with so much changing of chaises and so forth; and I hope it will appear t...
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1818, 1859
"Now this is by no means possible, for as soon as we turn into ourselves to make the attempt, and seek for once to know ourselves fully by means of introspective reflection, we are lost in a bottomless void; we find ourselves like the hollow glass globe, from out of which a voice speaks whose cau...
preview | full record— Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860)