Date: 1777, 1793
"And what a crowd of wild ideas press / Distracting on the soul!"
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1781
"Mind, like a bride from a nobler family, enriches matter by its union, and brings as a dower, possessions before unknown. Henceforth matter appears cloathed in a gayer and richer garment; and the fruits of this union are a new progeny, to which matter, confining its alliance to its own family, c...
preview | full record— Rotheram, John (1725–1789)
Date: 1781
"Which, like a skilful artist, goes to work upon the materials furnished by the senses; comparing selecting, analysing, and abstracting; till by placing them in different points of view their fitness, relations, and dependencies are seen."
preview | full record— Rotheram, John (1725–1789)
Date: 1781
"Her teeming Thoughts with bright Conceptions glow, / Ideas crowd, and Lines spontaneous flow."
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: 1786
"From that awful period, almost every expectation is forlorn: the heart is left unguarded: its great protector is no more: the vices therefore, which so long encompassed it in vain, obtain an easy victory: in crouds they pour into the defenceless avenues, and take possession of the soul: there is...
preview | full record— Clarkson, Thomas (1760–1846)
Date: 1807
"Yes, 't is too late,--now Reason guides / The mind, sole judge in all debate."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1826
"Her Heart was Judge, & could the difference trace / Between the Jocky-Air and real Grace, / Between the Lad, who was allowed to ride, / And show his Hunters at his Landlord's Side, / And One, who thought not that he should aspire / Beyond his Rank by riding with the Squire."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: April, 1871
"Many beliefs, in Coleridge's happy phrase, slumber in the 'dormitory of the soul'; they are present to the consciousness, but they incite to no action."
preview | full record— Bagehot, William (1826-1877)
Date: 1905
"'Know then, I cannot from my breast expel / 'A strong Impression fated there to dwell"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)