Date: 1788
"While, seeking pleasures, and avoiding pains, / Will whips, or curbs, as reason holds the reins."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: June, 1788
"Think, ye masters, iron-hearted, / Lolling at your jovial boards, / Think how many backs have smarted / For the sweets your cane affords."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1788
"When Passion's tides thro' mans' strong art'ries roar, / His heart resists them like a flinty shore; / But our frail frames, like mould'ring banks, give way."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1788
"Our mind's unhelm'd, our attributes decay--"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1788
"My heart throbs high, as if 'twould burst its cell."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1788
"Those arts that ornament the mind, as geography, arithmetic, —"
preview | full record— Berquin, Arnaud
Date: 1788
"A humane heart always rejoices to soften the distresses of its fellow creatures."
preview | full record— Berquin, Arnaud
Date: 1788
"In short, one wants but fingers, and no head for games of chance: and in my thought, such games are utterly unworthy of a thinking man."
preview | full record— Berquin, Arnaud
Date: 1788
"She had a metaphysical turn, which inclined her to reflect on every object that passed by her; and her mind was not like a mirror, which receives every floating image, but does not retain them: she had not any prejudices, for every opinion was examined before it was adopted."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)