Date: 1781, 1791
"Thou hast no flinty heart which cannot feel, / Thy bosom is not braced with chains of steel."
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1791
"Bid the dark Furies all thy bosom steel, / And Cumberland afresh thine anger feel."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1791
"Dr. Goldsmith once said to Dr. Johnson, that he wished for some additional members to the LITERARY CLUB, to give it an agreeable variety; for (said he) there can now be nothing new among us: we have travelled over one another's minds."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1791
"His mind resembled a fertile, but thin soil. There was a quick, but not a strong vegetation, of whatever chanced to be thrown upon it. No deep root could be struck. The oak of the forest did not grow there: but the elegant shrubbery and the fragrant parterre appeared in gay succession."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1791
"In progress of time, when my mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian aether, I could with much more facility and exactness, carry in my memory and commit to paper the exuberant variety of his wisdom and wit."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1791
"Your resolution to obey your father I sincerely approve; but do not accustom yourself to enchain your volatility by vows; they will sometime leave a thorn in your mind, which you will, perhaps, never be able to extract or eject."
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Date: 1791
"But a convert from Popery to Protestantism, gives up so much of what he has held as sacred as any thing that he retains; there is so much laceration of mind in such a conversion, that it can hardly be sincere and lasting"
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Date: 1791
"Yes; Burke is an extraordinary man. His stream of mind is perpetual."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1791
"As in filling a vessel drop by dy drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. "
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Date: 1791
"If his imagination be not sickly and feeble, it 'wings its distant way' far beyond himself, and views the world in unceasing activity of every sort."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)