Date: 1708
"Thus these three Receptacles were made in the same order which we have describ'd, and these were the first part of that great Mass which was form'd; now they stood in need of one another's assistance; the first wanted the other two as Servants, and they again the assistance and guidance of the f...
preview | full record— Ockley, Simon (bap. 1679, d. 1720)
Date: 1709
"[W]e may Hope those favourable Sentiments will be no Strangers to Your Grace's Breast; which is a Repository for all Things Great and Human, for all Things Just and Noble"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1770-1
"By this time the choleric vapours, which madam had jogged downwards when she let her broad bottom salute the chair with such a whack, growing warm amongst the hodg-potch they found in her store-room, which we may properly stile a hot-house, began to ascend, and take possession of their former te...
preview | full record— Bridges, Thomas (b. 1710?, d. in or after 1775)