Date: 1766
"I have ever perceived, that where the mind was capacious, the affections were good."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1763, 1767
"The guardian genius of his dawning thought, / Who wide disclos'd to wisdom's sacred ray / The eager inlets of his ample mind, / And pour'd upon each opening mental cell, / The virtue-forming scientific beam / With letter'd and religious radiance fill'd, / The fair expanses of his princely soul, ...
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1767
"The vacancy he found in his heart was insupportable."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1767
"Whilst he endeavoured to fill up the vacuity he found in his mind, his time was spent at best but in a sort of insipid tranquillity. The voluptuary has no taste for mental pleasures."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1768
"No doubt the ocean fills the mind with vast ideas."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1774
"Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint, / While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was in't."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1776
"Their hearts are tied up in their purses."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1789
"A different store his richer freight imparts-- / The gem of virtue, and the gold of hearts; / The social sense, the feelings of mankind, / And the large treasure of a godlike mind!"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)