Date: 1831
Cowley "was a most amiable man; and the loveliness of his mind shines out in his productions"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"Reason is to imagination as the instrument to the agent, as the body to the spirit, as the shadow to the substance."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: April, 1871
"Intensity. This is the main cause why the ideas that flash on the minds of seers, as in Scott's description, are believed; they come mostly when the nerves are exhausted by fasting, watching and longing; they have a peculiar brilliancy, and therefore they are believed."
preview | full record— Bagehot, William (1826-1877)
Date: 2000
"The public situations that I have mentioned give rise to corresponding mental processes which are modeled on the public procedures, as a shadowy movement on a ceiling is modeled on an original physical movement on the floor."
preview | full record— Hampshire, Stuart (1914-2004)