Date: 1784
"No, Edwitha--you have a native dignity of mind incapable of degradation or alloy."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Date: 1784
" I am form'd horribly robust, as thou art, without a grain of sensibility--a heart of stone, and nerves of cast iron"
preview | full record— Andrews, Miles Peter (1742-1814)
Date: 1784
"Pistols prim'd and carbines loaded, / Courage strikes on hearts of steel"
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1785
"Thus rust the Mind's best powers."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1785
"Even if, by a special disfavor of fortune or by the niggardly provision of a stepmotherly nature, this will should wholly lack the capacity to carry out its purpose--if with its greatest efforts it should yet achieve nothing and only the good will were left (not, of course, as a mere wish but as...
preview | full record— Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)
Date: 1785
Wisdom is a pearl "with most success / Sought in still water, and beneath clear skies"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
"Mark now the proof I give thee, that the brave / Need no such aids as superstition lends / To steel their hearts against the dread of death!"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
"Yet patient wait, till grace his will subdue, / The fire his dross, the spirit his heart renew:"
preview | full record— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)
Date: 1785
"While in high life our hearts the fashions steel, / Too gay to listen, and too fine to feel--"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)