Date: 1755

Affections may seem benumbed or may take take fire

— Hooker [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"I've seen thee stern, and thou hast oft beheld
Heart hardening spectacles"

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"Such iron hearts we are, and such / The base barbarity of human kind."

— Rowe [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"Thoughts come crouding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject."

— Dryden [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"Of sorriest fancies your companions making, / Using those thoughts which should indeed have died / With them they think on."

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"Using those thoughts which should indeed have died
With them they think on."

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

A soul's thoughts may "perish in thinking"

— Locke [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

A sweet idea (of a beloved) may wander through one's thoughts

— Fairfax [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"Where beams of warm imagination play, / The memory's soft figures melt away"

— Pope [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

Despair may darken the imagination

— Sidney [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]