Date: 1796
"Cold as ice themselves, they never could kindle in our breasts a spark of that zeal, which is necessary to a conflict with an adverse zeal; much less were they made to infuse into our minds that stubborn persevering spirit, which alone is capable of bearing up against those vicissitudes of fortu...
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Date: 1796
"It has nothing that can keep the mind erect under the gusts of adversity."
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Date: 1796
"It was expected that he would have re-asserted the justice of his cause; that he would have re-animated whatever remained to him of his allies, and endeavoured to recover those whom their fears had led astray; that he would have re-kindled the martial ardour of his citizens; that he would have h...
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Date: 1796
"It is the common doom of man that he must eat his bread by the sweat of his brow, that is, by the sweat of his body, or the sweat of his mind."
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Date: 1796
"Conscience is formally deposed from its dominion over the mind."
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Date: 1801
Virtue may be a man's "eternal flame" or "ruling passion"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1802
"With my inward eye 'tis an old man grey, / With my outward a thistle across the way."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: September 10, 1802
"A Poet's Heart & Intellect should be combined, intimately combined & unified, with the great appearances in Nature -- & not merely held in solution & loose mixture with them, in the shape of formal Similies."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1809
"Could my ideas flow as fast as the rain in the store-closet it would be charming."
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Date: 1810
"Fear was his ruling passion; yet was Love, / Of timid kind, once known his heart to move."
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