Date: 1747-8
"Revenge, invoked I to myself, keep thy throne in my heart--If the usurper Love once more drive thee from it, thou wilt never regain possession!"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
Power's "amplest, best Extent" is "An Empire o'er [one's] Mind"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
In the afterlife "to be worse than worst / Of those that lawless and uncertain thought / Imagines howling" is too horrible
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1749
"but to me they [natural impressions of surprize and admiration] sensibly prov'd the power and full dominion of the sole passion of my heart over me, a passion in which soul and body were concenter'd, and left me no room for any other relish of life but love"
preview | full record— Cleland, John (bap. 1710, d. 1789)
Date: 1749
The internal "Somewhat" may be considered "as sitting on its Throne in the Mind, like the Lord High Chancellor of this Kingdom in his Court; where it presides, governs, directs, judges, acquits and condemns according to Merit and Justice; with a Knowledge which nothing escapes, a Penetration whic...
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1749
"Thus, not all the Charms of the incomparable Sophia; not all the dazzling Brightness, and languishing Softness of her Eyes; the Harmony of her Voice, and of her Person; not all her Wit, good Humour, Greatness of Mind, or Sweetness of Disposition, had been able so absolutely to conquer and enslav...
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1749
The "internal Somewhat" may be considered "as sitting on its Throne in the Mind, like the Lord High Chancellor of this Kingdom in his Court; where it presides, governs, directs, judges, acquits and condemns according to Merit and Justice; with a Knowledge which nothing escapes, a Penetration whic...
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1749
"In return to which, Conscience, like a good Lawyer, attempted to distinguish between an absolute Breach of Trust, as here where the Goods were delivered, and a bare Concealment of what was found, as in the former Case. Avarice presently treated this with Ridicule, called it a Distinction without...
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1751
"For partly the Recommendation of his Person, but chiefly the Profusion of his Expences made her think him a very desireable Lover; and as she saw that his ruling Passion was Vanity, she was too good a Dissembler, and too much a Mistress of her Trade, not to flatter this Weakness for her own Ends."
preview | full record— Coventry, (William) Francis Walter (1725-1753/4)
Date: 1751
"Nothing of body, when friend writes to friend; the mind impelling sovereignly the vassal-fingers."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)