Date: 1765 [1764]
"The friar, who knew nothing of the youth but what he had learnt occasionally from the princess, ignorant of what became of him, and not sufficiently reflecting on the impetuosity of Manfred's temper, conceived that it might not be amiss to sow the seeds of jealousy in his mind."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1766
"The blossom opening to the day, / The dews of heaven refin'd, / Could nought of purity display, / To emulate his mind."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1766
"Every tender epithet bestowed on her sister brought a pang to her heart and a tear to her eye; and as one vice, tho' cured, ever plants others where it has been, so her former guilt, tho' driven out by repentance, left jealousy and envy behind."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1771
"I am inclined to think, no mind was ever wholly exempt from envy; which, perhaps, may have been implanted, as an instinct essential to our nature"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1793, 1794
"When future years in fancy's mirror rose, / What pleasure 'twas to lead thy opening mind, / Where virtue blossoms, and religion blows!"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (fl. 1793) [Rev.]
Date: 1796
"The second was still too young to benefit by my instructions; but in the heart of my eldest I laboured unceasingly to plant those principles which might enable him to avoid the crimes of his parents."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"I suffered not my grief at this circumstance to take root in my mind."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"Extreme simplicity prevented her from perceiving the aim to which the monk's insinuations tended; but the excellent morals which she owed to Elvira's care, the solidity and correctness of her understanding, and a strong sense of what was right, implanted in her heart by nature, made her feel tha...
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1799
Certain beliefs cannot be "outrooted" from the mind
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"You see, though a man, I use your privilege, and prefer knitting yarn to threshing my brain with a book or the barn-floor with a flail"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)