Date: 1823
"Retire: but look into your past impression! / And you will find, though shuddering at the mirror / Of your own thoughts, in all their self confession, / The lurking bias, be it truth or error, / To the unknown."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1823
"His mind was in its original state of white paper."
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: 1823
"This was the thought--the sentiment--the bright solitary star of your lives,--ye mild and happy pair--which cheered you in the night of intellect, and in the obscurity of your station!"
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: 1823
"Not that I affect ignorance- but my head has not many mansions, nor spacious; and I have been obliged to fill it with such cabinet curiosities as it can hold without aching"
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: 1823
"Not that I affect ignorance--but my head has not many mansions, nor spacious; and I have been obliged to fill it with such cabinet curiosities as it can hold without aching"
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: 1823
"But at the desk Tipp was quite another sort of creature. Thence all ideas, that were purely ornamental, were banished"
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: 1823
"His pen was not less erring than his heart"
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: 1823
"'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, / Should let itself be snuffed out by an Article."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: December 27, 1823
"Now in filling my mind with them [ideas and facts], and in warming and animating me, you would, I doubt not, do me great good. And I am one of those substances, like sealing wax and other electric bodies, which require to be warmed in order to possess the faculty of attracting objects, of coveri...
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Date: November 1824
"Shall human reason frame a rule to draw / Before its puny court the cognizance / Of a Divine eternal ordinance / With warrants of its own?"
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)