Date: 1760-7
"For the next two whole stages, no subject would go down, but the heavy blow he had sustain'd from the loss of a son, whom it seems he had fully reckon'd upon in his mind, and register'd down in his pocket-book, as a second staff for his old age, in case Bobby should fail him."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1761
"[M]any, therefore, may violate that rule of right, which the hand of the Almighty has written upon the living tablets of the heart"
preview | full record— Hawkesworth, John (bap. 1720, d. 1773)
Date: 1761
"[Y]et were his offences against me even greater than they are, your example would teach me to blot them all from my mind"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"Your brother, narrow-hearted, inhuman wretch, I blot forever from my thoughts"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
One may be "by a blameless life, endeavouring to blot out the memory of her fault"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"The image of Eloisa, never to be erased from my mind, shall be my shield, and render my soul invulnerable."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)
Date: 1762
"Your constant endeavours have been to inculcate the best principles into youthful minds, the only probable means of mending mankind; for the foundation of most of our virtues, or our vices, are laid in that season of life when we are most susceptible of impression, and when our minds, as on a sh...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"He reverenced and respected her like a divinity, but hoped that prudence might enable him to conquer his passion, at the same time that it had not force enough to determine him to fly her presence, the only possible means of lessening the impression which every hour engraved more deeply on his h...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762
"[M]y guardian angel forsook me when she expired! her last injunctions are deep engraven on my heart!"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1763
"I recollect those dear moments of confidence and friendship engraved for ever on my heart."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)