Date: 1790
"Not only in the eye of the law, but in the eye of reason, 'the will' is ever 'taken for the deed', and 'they who cannot as they will, must will as they may'; that is, must do as they can."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1790
"Love is an idle term; it is merely the fever of the mind, and, if encouraged, is apt to rage; but, if discouraged, may be overcome."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1791
The mind may be oppress'd with "weight of care"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
The mind may feel "Terrour and consternation"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
One may be as graceful in port and noble in stature as one is in mind discrete
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: February 1791
"The mind, in discovering truth, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it."
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1792
A passion may burst "from the grave, in evil hour" and hasten to its prey with fiercer pow'r and "vulture-like, with appetite increas'd" riot on the undiminish'd feast
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1792, 1810
"But would you (as Ithuriel, with his spear, / Struck the dire toad, at Eve's invaded ear) / Probe, with your searching pen, the mind's disease?"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1792, 1810
"'Oh! London! what calamities I see, / 'In my mind's eye," whene'er I think on thee!"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)