Date: w. 1788-93, 1796 (rev. 1815, 1827, 1837, 1897)
"By many, conversation is esteemed as a theatre or a school: but, after the morning has been occupied by the labours of the library, I wish to unbend rather than to exercise my mind; and in the interval between tea and supper I am far from disdaining the innocent amusement of a game at cards."
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
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)
Date: w. 1766, 1797
"Has my moral pencil / So oft portray'd the forms of truth and falshood, / In their just lineaments, to thy mind's eye"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1797
"But it is sometimes not difficult to any one who is accustomed, if the phrase may be allowed, to the anatomy of the human mind, to discern, that generally speaking, the persons who use the above language, rely not so much on the merits of Christ, and on the agency of Divine Grace, as on their ow...
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Date: 1797
"But 'the mind diseased' is neglected and forgotten."
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Date: 1798
"The original plan of Mary, respecting her residence in France, had no precise limits in the article of duration; the single purpose she had in view being that of an endeavour to heal her distempered mind."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1798
"Our minds shall drink at every pore / The spirit of the season"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1798
"'That we can feed this mind of ours, / 'In a wise passiveness."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)