Date: December 1790
"Perhaps the most improving exercise of the mind, confining the argument to the enlargement of the understanding, is the restless enquiries that hover on the boundary, or stretch over the dark abyss of uncertainty."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1791
"These modern Sapphos are conceited creatures, / They sport their thoughts as others do their features; / These but coquette it with a different part, / And seize the head, while others charm the heart."
preview | full record— Falconar, Maria (b. 1771-) and Harriet (b. 1774-)
Date: 1791
The mind may be oppress'd with "weight of care"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
The mind may feel "Terrour and consternation"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
One may be as graceful in port and noble in stature as one is in mind discrete
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
"Each vice, to minds depraved by bondage known, / With sure contagion fastens on his own."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1791
Corruption may sicken the heart
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1791
"But a convert from Popery to Protestantism, gives up so much of what he has held as sacred as any thing that he retains; there is so much laceration of mind in such a conversion, that it can hardly be sincere and lasting"
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1791
"He [Johnson] entered upon a curious discussion of the difference between intuition and sagacity; one being immediate in its effect, the other requiring a circuitous process; one he observed was the eye of the mind, the other the nose of the mind."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)