Date: 1754
"How you wound my soul by the supposition!"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1759
"To the mind, as to the eye, it is difficult to compare with exactness objects vast in their extent, and various in their parts."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1759
"Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1759
"Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time, whatever we leave behind us is always lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1794
"[T]he thing in which my imagination revelled the most freely, was the analysis of the private and internal operations of the mind, employing my metaphysical dissecting knife in tracing and laying bare the involutions of motive, and recording the gradually accumulating impulses."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1796
"Aided by her youth and healthy constitution, she shook off the malady which her mother's death had occasioned; but it was not so easy to remove the disease of her mind."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"With affright did he bend his mind's eye on the space beyond the grave; nor could hide from himself how justly he ought to dread Heaven's vengeance."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)