Date: 1785
"To entertain a visionary notion that one sees a distant or future event, may be called superstition; but the correspondence of the fact or event with such an impression on the fancy, though certainly very wonderful, if proved, has no more connection with superstition, than magnetism or electrici...
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1785
"The mind of man can bear a certain pressure; but there is a point when it can bear no more."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1785
"I answered I would not; and he applauded my setting such a value on an accession of new images in my mind."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: December 10, 1784; 1785
"I would rather wish a Student, as soon as he goes abroad, to employ himself upon whatever he has been incited to, by any immediate impulse, than to go sluggishly about a prescribed task; whatever he does in such a state of mind little advantage accrues from it, as nothing sinks deep enough to le...
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)
Date: December 10, 1784; 1785
"The daily food and nourishment of the mind of an Artist is found in the great works of his predecessors."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)
Date: May 18, 1782, 1785
"Nor complain of hard fate; but imprint on your mind, / That true pleasures should be like rich odours confin'd."
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1785
"O, Montagu! forgive me, if I sing / red with the milder ray / Of soft humanity, and kindness bland: / So wide its influence, that the bright beams / Reach the low vale where mists of ignorance lodge, / Strike on the innate spark which lay immersed, / Thick-clogged, and almost quenched in total n...
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1785
"While in high life our hearts the fashions steel, / Too gay to listen, and too fine to feel--"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1785
"I was surpriz'd, taken unawares, passion ran away with me like an unbroke horse: but I have got him under now; I can govern him with a twine of thread."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1785, 1838
The body may feast while the mind may fast
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)