Date: 1761
"Hitherto her memory had been wholly suspended by violent passions, which had crowded upon her in a rapid and uninterrupted succession, and the first gleam of recollection threw her into a new agony"
preview | full record— Hawkesworth, John (bap. 1720, d. 1773)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"I have often suspected Isabella's indifference to my son: a thousand circumstances crowd on my mind that confirm that suspicion."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"No, Bianca; his heart was ever a stranger to me--but he is my father, and I must not complain."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1770-1
"The method that Mrs. Ruby-nose used to dismiss her anger, was to clap herself into an arm-chair with such a whang, that it shook the hot vapours from her brain, and sent them in a hurry down into a capacious store-room called her victualling-office."
preview | full record— Bridges, Thomas (b. 1710?, d. in or after 1775)
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: 1773
"Zounds! Sir, can you give any relief to a soul that is haunted by Furies?"
preview | full record— Graves, Richard (1715-1804)
Date: 1796
"He felt not the provocation of lust; no voluptuous desires rioted in his bosom; nor did a burning imagination picture to him the charms which modesty had veiled from his eyes."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"The image of that lovely and unfortunate girl still lived in his heart, and baffled all Virginia's efforts to displace it."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)