Date: 1745
"Bear Witness, Heaven! Thou Mind-inspecting Eye! / My Breast is pure."
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Date: 1755
"Can the troubled Brain / Of Sleep out-stretch the Reason's waking Eye?"
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Date: 1775
The imagination in its fullest enjoyments becomes suspicious of its offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
"If there be but one vicious mind in the Set, 'twill spread like a contagion--the action of their pulse beats to the lascivious movement of the jigg--their quivering, warm-breath'd sighs impregnate the very air--the atmosphere becomes electrical to love, and each amorous spark darts thro' every l...
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Date: 1775
The thunder of words may sour the "milk of human kindness" in the breast
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