Date: 1779, 1781
"His strength always appears in his agility; his volatility is not the flutter of a light, but the bound of an elastick mind."
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Date: 1779, 1781
"The heat of Milton's mind might be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into his work the spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1779, 1781
"An accumulation of knowledge impregnated his mind, fermented by study and exalted by imagination."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1780
"My Potter stamp on me thy clay, Thy only stamp of love!"
preview | full record— Wesley, John (1703-1791)
Date: 1781
"The Church-yard abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo."
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Date: 1781
"He [Young] plays, indeed, only on the surface of life; he never penetrates the recesses of the mind, and therefore the whole power of his poetry is exhausted by a single perusal; his conceits please only when they surprise."
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Date: February 19, 1798
"Whether material substance unrefined, / Owns the strong impulse of instinctive mind, / Which to one centre points diverging lines, / Confounds, refracts, invig'rates, and combines?"
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