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Date: 1726
"But as we are always ready to flatter our selves, so did our Lover, and took the Lady's Courtesie for Kindness, and her smiling Looks for interiour Affection."
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1732
"Distrest by a confused Medley of thinking, she threw herself carelesly on a Couch, where amid a Chaos of Reflection, she slept, if, we can properly be said to sleep, (when the Mind fir'd by warring Passions, dreams 'em o'er again) the Chamber Door had but negligently fell too, for the unthinking...
preview | full record— Boyd, Elizabeth (fl. 1727-1745)
Date: 1736
"Philosophy was incapable of affording her any Relief, and all her Reason served only to paint the Unhappiness of her Condition in the stronger Colours."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1736
"This Discourse, meant for a Comfort, was the severest Corrosive to the Heart of Eovaai."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1736
"Here I had an Opportunity of observing how little the Toils of the Body are to be held in competition with those of the Mind."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1744, 1753
"[F]or as his whole Mind was bent on one Point, and as the Knowledge of Characters relating to that Point was the grand Instrument of his Trade, he as mechanically acquired it as a Fisherman does the Knowledge of the proper Baits to catch the several Sorts of Fish."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1744, 1753
"Then a perplexed Heap of Notions crowded into his Mind, about Justice, Injustice, Prudence, Imprudence, Friendship, and Benevolence."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1752
"[T]he Sight of me will cause so many tumultuous Motions in the Soul of his Patient"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1752
One may contemplate "the sudden Change" and "divine Image" which is engraven in the heart
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1752
"The Countess's Discourse had raised a Kind of Tumult in her Thoughts, which gave an Air of Perplexity to her lovely Face"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
