Date: 1785
"I own thy image is engraven on my heart."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Date: 1790
"[W]hile I live, your generosity and valour shall be engraven on my heart"
preview | full record— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841)
Date: 1790
"[W]hile I live his generosity must be engraved on my heart"
preview | full record— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841); Miles Peter Andrews (d. 1814)
Date: 1794
"No--no!--no man's temper's more mild, when taken at a proper season, but now his head's as crowded as a newspaper, and in as much confusion as your work-bag, what with the thoughts of his new varnish, and the expectation of Mr. Vapour,--I'll speak to him for you."
preview | full record— Hoare, Prince (1755-1834)
Date: 1795
"I'm only a living volume, and if you will peruse my thoughts, you'll read of nothing but yourself --you are engraved here in indelible letters"
preview | full record— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841)
Date: 1796
"Ay: ay: this is none of your modern paper skull'd authors--old Geoffery's head is sound"
preview | full record— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841)
Date: 1798
"Every letter of it stands engraven on my heart"
preview | full record— Leftley, Charles (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798
"There are occupations in the world, which mould a man into a certain form for life, like a piece of paper which has once been folded, its marks are never obliterated."
preview | full record— Render, William (fl. 1790-1801); August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"Hark you, mine honest friend! a woman in love enquires not whether the object of her passion can read or write; for love is only legible in the eyes, and in the heart only is it written."
preview | full record— Dutton, Thomas (fl. 1770-1815); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1805
Pity first stamp'd your story in my breast, and the impression is engrav'd for ever"
preview | full record— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841)