Date: 1746
" Justify us by Thy right, / And stamp us with Thy seal"
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Date: 1746
"His bleeding love 'tis Thine to seal / With pardon on the contrite heart:"
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Date: 1747-8
"Having lost her, my whole soul is a blank."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"[W]hen my mind is made such wax, as to be fit to take what impression she pleases to give it."
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Date: 1747-8
"Because a woman's heart may be at one time adamant, at another wax."
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Date: 1748
Thought is "The lover's heaven, or his hell."
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Date: 1747-8
"Yet her charming body is not equally organized. The unequal partners pull two ways; and the divinity within her tears her silken frame."
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Date: w. 1740, 1748
"But when your early Care shall have design'd / To plan the Soul and mould the waxen Mind; / When you shall pour upon his tender Breast / Ideas that must stand an Age's Test, / Oh! there imprint with strongest deepest dye / The lovely form of Goddess LIBERTY!"
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1749
One may give and take "with a gust inexpressible, a kiss of welcome, that my heart rising to my lips, stamp'd with its warmest impression"
preview | full record— Cleland, John (bap. 1710, d. 1789)
Date: 1749
"Yet should thy Soul indulge the gen'rous Heat, / Till captive Science yields her last Retreat / Should Reason guide thee with her brightest Ray, / And pour on misty Doubt resistless Day; / Should no false Kindness lure to loose Delight, / Nor Praise relax, nor Difficulty fright; / Should temptin...
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