Date: 1752
"O Heavens! how a thousand little Circumstances crowd into my Mind"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1753
The heart may a "stranger to those young desires which haunt the fancy and warm breast of youth"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1753
Life may still linger "in some of its interior haunts" so that a doctor may immediately order "such applications to the extremities and surface of the body, as might help to concentrate and reinforce the natural heat"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1753
"Though he expressed infinite anxiety and chagrin at this misfortune, which could not fail to raise new obstacles to their love, his heart was a stranger to the uneasiness he affected"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1753
"[B]ut, notwithstanding the fatigue he had undergone, sleep refused to visit his eye-lids, all his faculties being kept in motion by the ideas that crowded so fast upon his imagination"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1756, 1766
"The oblation of the Son, and the grace of the Father, have effects in religion, in changing and sanctifying, that reason is an utter stranger to."
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1756, 1766
"When death approaches, the amusements of sense immediately fail, and past transactions, in every circumstance of aggravation, crowd into the mind"
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1759
"He shewed, with great strength of sentiment, and variety of illustration, that human nature is degraded and debased, when the lower faculties predominate over the higher; that when fancy, the parent of passion, usurps the dominion of the mind, nothing ensues but the natural effect of unlawful go...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1760
"Upon this I mounted into the censorium of his brain, to learn from the spirit of consciousness, which you call self, the cause of so uncommon a change, as it is contrary to the fundamental rules of our order, ever to give up an heart of which we once get possession."
preview | full record— Johnstone, Charles (c.1719-c.1800)
Date: 1760
"(I see you wonder, that I speak of this spirit [personified consciousness], though the self of a man, as if it was a female; but in this there is a mystery; every spirit is of both sexes, but as the female is the worthier with us, we take our denomination from that.)"
preview | full record— Johnstone, Charles (c.1719-c.1800)