Date: 1745
"Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound; / When cut by Wit, it casts a brighter beam; / Yet, Wit apart, it is a diamond still."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1746, 1757
"Nay doubly curs'd be such a Breast of Steel, / Which never melted at Another's Woe."
preview | full record— Thompson, William (bap. 1712, d.c. 1766)
Date: September 27, 1746
"My virtue shows what 'twas the gods design'd, / By chance on Africk's clay they stamp'd a Roman mind."
preview | full record— Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743)
Date: 1746, 1753
"Not always, shall ambition's muddied brain / Work to perswade--yet, hold example vain!"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1747-8
"Because a woman's heart may be at one time adamant, at another wax."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"Rot me if it be not my full persuasion, that if he had, her heart would have been found to be either iron or marble"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"'This, says he, I will for ever remember against her, in order to steel my own heart, that I may cut thro' a rock of ice to hers"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"Then will I steel my heart with these remembrances"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"But I have now once more steeled my heart."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"But the over-refinement of Platonic sentiments always sinks into the dross and feces of that Passion"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)