Date: 1762
"For a perfect Knowledge in these, and a proper Attention to Emphasis, will not only lead to, but, at last, actually produce what includes them all, such a masterly Elocution, as can hold the Passions captive, and surprize the Soul itself in its inmost Recesses."
preview | full record— Buchanan, James (fl. 1753-1773)
Date: 1762
"It is accordingly observed by Longinus, in his treatise of the Sublime, that the proper time for metaphor, is when the passions are so swelled as to hurry on like a torrent."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1762
"Is the beauty of truth, or moral actions, or the deformity of falsehood, or vice, capable of being represented on paper, or on any other plain, except the rasa tabula of the mind?"
preview | full record— Griffith, Richard (d. 1788)
Date: w. 1762-3, published 1950
"Lord Elibank has just a cabinet of curiosities [in his mind], which are well ranged and of which he has an exact catalogue."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: w. 1762-3, published 1950
"He considered the mind of man like a room, which is either made agreeable or the reverse by the pictures with which it is adorned."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1762
"The legislative power is the heart of the State; the executive power is its brain, which causes the movement of all the parts."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
Date: April, 1762
"The metaphor is a shorter simile, or rather a kind of magical coat, by which the same idea assumes a thousand different appearances."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1762
"The mind falls with a heavy body, descends with a river, and ascends with flame and smoke."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1762
"This vibration of the mind in passing and repassing betwixt things that are related, explains the facts above mentioned."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1762
"The same object makes not always the same impression; because the mind, being of a limited capacity, cannot, at the same instant, give great attention to a plurality of objects."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)