Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
The mind may be a "a Magazine of Virtue and unblemish'd Thoughts."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1752
"But for my part, I promise you I like her beyond all other Women; and whilst that is the Case, my Boy, if her Mind was as full of Iniquity as Pandora's Box was of Diseases, I'd hug her close in my Arms, and only take as much Care as possible to keep the Lid down for fear of Mischief."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
"'But you understand Human Nature to the Bottom,' answered Amelia;' and your Mind is a Treasury of all ancient and modern Learning.'"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
"O, my dear Amelia, he hath removed the whole Gloom at once, hath driven all Despair out of my Mind, and hath filled it with the most sanguine, and at the same Time, the most reasonable Hopes of making a comfortable Provision for yourself and my dear Children."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
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)
Date: 1796
"I was conscious that there was no longer a void in my heart; that I had found the man whom I had sought till then, in vain."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"He remembered the many happy hours which he had passed in Rosario's society; and dreaded that void in his heart which parting with him would occasion."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"He shuddered at the void which her absence would leave in his bosom".
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"For me, whose heart was unoccupied, and who grieved at the void, to see her and to love her were the same."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)