Date: 1798
"A woman, with sentiments as pure, as refined, and as delicate, as ever inhabited a human heart!"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1798
"In a robust and unwavering judgment of this sort, there is a kind of witchcraft; when it decides justly, it produces a responsive vibration in every ingenuous mind."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1798
The heart of another may be one's judge
preview | full record— Porter, Stephen (1781-1868); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1798
"No neighbour mind serves as a mirror to reflect the generous confidence he felt within himself; and perhaps the man never yet existed, who could maintain his enthusiasm to its full vigour, in the midst of this kind of solitariness."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1801
Virtue may be a man's "eternal flame" or "ruling passion"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1802
"Is prouder yet in sterling worth to shine, / Stamp'd by the friendship of a mind like thine"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1804
"Yet shall we, Colman, at these gifts repine? / Implore cold apathy to steel the heart?"
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1804
"Though with only one eye, yet a spark from that same, / Like a big brimstone match kindles up such a flame, / As to make my blood boil, while it causes a smart / Like the lamp of a teakettle under my heart."
preview | full record— Collins, John [called Brush Collins] (1742-1808)
Date: 1804
"And my breast, like a mutton-chop, broiling"
preview | full record— Collins, John [called Brush Collins] (1742-1808)
Date: 1804
"Thro' Error's maze, thro' Folly's night, / The lamp of Reason lends me light"
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)