Date: 1790
"But let me not thus pond'ring, gaping, stand-- / But, lo, I am not at my own command: / Bed, bosom, kiss, embraces, storm my brains, / And, lawless tyrants, bind my will in chains."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1791
The mind may be rent as when two adverse winds vex and blow the sable flood
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
"He spake, and at his words grief like a cloud / Involved the mind of Hector dark around"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
The sight of someone may raise a tempest in the mind
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
"I have a wonderful superstitious love of mystery; when, perhaps, the truth is, that it is owing to the cloudy darkness of my own mind."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1791
"I said to him, I was sure that human life was not machinery, that is to say, a chain of fatality planned and directed by the Supreme Being, as it had in it so much wickedness and misery, so many instances of both, as that by which my mind was now clouded."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1791
"I compared him at this time to a warm West-Indian climate, where you have a bright sun, quick vegetation, luxuriant foliage, luscious fruits; but where the same heat sometimes produces thunder, lightening, and earthquakes in a terrible degree.
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: November 19, 1793
"Like the blue firmament above us, our minds and fortunes are constantly changing. The sun that descends in glory amidst the serenity of an evening sky, frequently rises in the morning, through the gloom of clouds, and the rage of storms."
preview | full record— Boyd, Hugh (1746-1794)
Date: 1794
"Mr. Falkland's mind was full of uproar like the war of contending elements"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)