Date: 1765 [1764]
"Arriving there, he sought the gloomiest shades, as best suited to the pleasing melancholy that reigned in his mind."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1773
Suicide might be allowable if a man "were under no obligations to any law, either of Nature, or Reason, or Society: not to mention the Revealed Will of God, by which all murder is forbidden."
preview | full record— Graves, Richard (1715-1804)
Date: 1794
I may act "in obedience to the principle which at present governed me with absolute dominion"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1794
"I would not shackle you with fetters of suspicion; I would have you governed by justice and reason."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1796
"The trial is dangerous; he is just at that period of life when the passions are most vigorous, unbridled, and despotic."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"He closed his eyes, but strove in vain to banish her from his thoughts."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"The woman reigns in my bosom, and I am become a prey to the wildest of passions."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"His ruling passion was hunting, which he had brought himself to consider as a serious occupation; and, when talking over some remarkable chace, he treated the subject with as much gravity as it had been a battle on which the fate of two kingdoms was depending."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"Then banish from your mind the idea of our being ever united."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"Pleasure fled, and Shame usurped her seat in his bosom."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)