Date: 1754
"I know not likewise, why a short-sighted mind's eye should not be as good an expression as a short-sighted body's eye"
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Date: 1754
"But in this we are much kinder to our sense than to our intellect; for in order to assist the former we use glasses and spectacles of all kinds adapted to our deficiency of sight, whereas in the latter we are so far from accepting the assistance of mental glasses or spectacles, that we often str...
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Date: 1754
"The poet who writes to the mind's eye, and collects his images through the same medium, lies under a great disadvantage in comparison with the painter"
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Date: 1754
"The original, from whence [a painter] draws his copy, is an outward object, and his picture, when finish'd, is address'd to the visual sense: whereas the original, from whence the [poet] takes copy, is perceived by the mind's eye, and address'd also to the mental perception of his reader."
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Date: 1754
"If invention then be only a capacity of finding, and not of creating, we must endeavour (if we would exercise this faculty) to to keep our mind's eye open, and on the search, and not close it up by bending all our thoughts on the gratification of some present humour"
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Date: 1754
"How you wound my soul by the supposition!"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1759
"The Lady, who now engrossed all Lord Dellwyn's Panegyric, did indeed deserve much more than he could pay, having risen to a Degree of Excellence far above his Lordship's Comprehension; his Mind's Eye, according to Hamlet's Expression, was so shortsighted, it could only disti...
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Date: 1759
"To the mind, as to the eye, it is difficult to compare with exactness objects vast in their extent, and various in their parts."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1759
"Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1759
"Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time, whatever we leave behind us is always lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude."
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