Date: 1765
"And my heart, within me burning, / Is become like melting wax."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1765
"Reason in the bosom pours, / Its growth improves, its fruit matures, / Each counsel of the human brain / Weighs in his scale, and stamps it vain?"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)
Date: 1765
"Are your thoughts by Justice sway'd, / And in Reason's balance weigh'd?"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)
Date: 1766
"The word 'heavy', is more applicable to that, which loads the body; 'weighty', to that, which burdens the mind."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1766
"'Excursions' are necessary to persons, in a sedentary way of life, in order, to unbend the mind, and, exercise the body."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1766
"Considering these words, in a religious sense; that of 'fervency', seems to rise upon 'warmth'; 'warmth' implying, a flame of devotion, in opposition to coolness; 'fervency', great heat of mind, as opposed to coldness."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1767
"A Mind is a balance for thousands a year."
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1767, 1784
"Shall we, because we strive in vain to tell / How Matter acts on incorporeal Mind, / Or how, when sleep has lock'd up ev'ry sense, / Or fevers rage, Imagination paints / Unreal scenes, reject what sober sense, / And calmest thought attest?"
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1768
"My heart smote me the moment he shut the door."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1768
"I should as soon think of making a genteel suit of cloaths out of remnants:--and to do it--pop--at first sight by declaration--is submitting the offer and themselves with it, to be sifted, with all their pours and contres, by an unheated mind."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)