Date: 1733, 1748
Memory is a "Surprising storehouse! in whose narrow womb / All things, the past, the present, and to come, / Find ample space, and large and mighty room."
preview | full record— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)
Date: 1761
"As I have an implicit faith in this good woman's skill, I remained perfectly satisfied with the judgment she had pronounced; and agreeing with her, that the sickness of the mind was beyond the power of medicine to reach."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1766
"I must believe you, Emily; there is a charm in truth, that strikes upon the mind, like light upon our eyes"
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1775
"Our Author, who almost every where manifests a perfect knowledge in the anatomy of the human mind, proves his science more particularly in a passage of this Scene, by shewing a property in our natures which might have escaped any common dissecter of morals; and this is, our suffering, upon true ...
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1775
"That this is the sense in which our Poet meant this scene to be accepted, is fully evident from his representing both Richard and Richmond to have been asleep during the apparition, and therefore capable of receiving those notices in the mind's eye only, as Hamlet says; which intirely removes th...
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1775
"Momus well wished a window in every man's breast. Physiognomists pretend they can take a peep through the features of the face; but this is too abstruse a science to answer the general purposes of life; besides that education may render such knowledge doubtful, as in the case of Socrates."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1775
"There is a contagion in minds and manners, as well as in bodies, when corrupt."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1775
"But, as I have said before, I do not think that ethic philosophy can ever be a gainer, by overstraining the sinews of the human mind."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"But various are the effects of the same disease, upon the human body, and as various are the effects of the self-same passion upon the human mind.--I think that last a good pretty philosophical sort of a sentence.--'Tis poetical, at least."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"O Lucy, if you ever loved me, strive, I conjure you, to assuage her gentle sorrows, and pour the balm of friendship on her wounded heart!"
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)