Date: 1778, 1779
"'You know not what you ask,' cried he; 'the emotions which now rend my soul are more than my reason can endure: suffer me, then, to leave you,--impute it not to unkindness, but think of me as well as thou canst.'"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1804
"But when that seal is first imprest, / When the young heart its pain shall try, / From the soft, yielding, trembling breast, / Oft seems the startled soul to fly."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1779
"My mind's in equipoise, ready alike / To hold thee as my Lover, or my Foe!"
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"Those minds imbued by vice, with deepest stains, / Are often mask'd in forms almost divine-- / Deck'd forth in words, and looks, that Virtue's self / Might challenge for her own."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"If right I read, your mind in balance hangs / 'Twixt the opposing principles of good / And ill."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779, 1781
"The variable weather of the mind, the flying vapours of incipient madness, which from time to time cloud reason, without eclipsing it, it requires so much nicety to exhibit, that Addison seems to have been deterred from prosecuting his own design."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1779, 1781
"The man that sits down to suppose himself charged with treason or peculation, and heats his mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing, differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1779, 1781
"His strength always appears in his agility; his volatility is not the flutter of a light, but the bound of an elastick mind."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1779, 1781
"The heat of Milton's mind might be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into his work the spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1779, 1781
"An accumulation of knowledge impregnated his mind, fermented by study and exalted by imagination."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)