Date: 1773
Suicide might be allowable if a man "were under no obligations to any law, either of Nature, or Reason, or Society: not to mention the Revealed Will of God, by which all murder is forbidden."
preview | full record— Graves, Richard (1715-1804)
Date: 1773
"But reasoning with a man under the influence of any passion is like endeavouring to stop a wild horse, who becomes more violent from being pursued."
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Date: 1773
"Nor blush, my fair, to own you copy these; / Your best, your sweetest empire is--to please."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"Smooth like her verse her passions learned to move, / And her whole soul was harmony and love."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"Virtue that breast without a conflict gained, / And easy, like a native monarch, reigned."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"Now deep retired in Frome's enchanting vale, / She pours her tuneful sorrows on the gale; / Without one fond reserve the world disclaims, / And gives up all her soul to heavenly flames."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"The remembrance of my infant days, like the fancied vibration of pleasant sounds in the ear, was still alive in my mind; and I flew to find out the marks by which even inanimate things were to be known, as the friends of my youth, not forgotten, though long unseen, nor lessened, in my estimation...
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1773
"Unfortunately the young man had acquired a certain train of ideas which were totally averse to that line of life his father had marked out for him."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1773
"Nor was her mind ill suited to this 'Index of the soul.'"
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1773
"A train of soft reflexions at length banished this rugged guest from his heart."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)