Date: 1705
"The Little Histories of this Kind have taken Place of Romances, whose Prodigious Number of Volumes were sufficient to tire and satiate such whose Heads were most fill'd with those Notions."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1705
"The Little Histories of this Kind have taken Place of Romances, whose Prodigious Number of Volumes were sufficient to tire and satiate such whose Heads were most fill'd with those Notions."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1752
"Learning, he said, had the same Effect on the Mind, that strong Liquors have on the Constitution; both tending to eradicate all our natural Fire and Energy."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)