Date: 1755
"I revised my comedies, together with some interludes which had lain some time in a corner, and I did not think them so wretched, but that they might appeal from the muddy brain of this player, to the clearer perception of other actors less scrupulous and more judicious."
preview | full record— Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616); Smollett, Tobias (1721-1771)
Date: 1755
"In this manner did he invent names for a great many knights in either army, to all of whom also he gave arms, colours, mottos and devices, without the least hesitation, being incredibly inspired by the fumes of a distempered fancy"
preview | full record— Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616); Smollett, Tobias (1721-1771)
Date: 1757-9
"But Virtue Minds of nobler Stamp invites / To her sincere and more refin'd Delights."
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]
Date: 1757-9
"In harden'd Oak his Heart did hide, / And Ribs of Iron arm'd his Side!"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]
Date: 1759
Woes may haunt the mind (but the Gods may give "cruel Phantoms to the Wind"
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1761
The mind of the hearer might very well be a tabula rasa, free from every prejudice, and like soft wax, susceptible of every impression; and with all this, not yield to truth itself, proposed in the manner it is every day proposed, under the appearance of falsehood."
preview | full record— Batteaux, Charles (1713-1780)
Date: 1761
"Your image in my mind is the only object of my passionate adoration."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)
Date: 1761
"In short, the whole face of nature appears as decayed to my outward senses, as I myself from within am dead to hope and joy."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)
Date: 1761
"Your sorrow is of the calmer, mine of the more passionate kind, yet though the affection of the mind be the same, it takes its colour in each from the different channels through which it runs; and indeed it is but natural, that the greatest misfortunes should produce the most disquieting anxieti...
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)
Date: 1761
"I cannot well tell what revolution it has occasioned in my mind; but I find myself ever since greatly altered."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)