Date: 1765 [1764]
"Manfred, who, though he had distinguished her by great indulgence, had imprinted her mind with terror from his causeless rigour to such amiable princesses as Hippolita and Matilda."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"There is not a sentiment engraven on my heart, that does not venerate you and yours."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1773
"I blot from my memory every other woman; those every-day beauties (as Terence calls them) who have nothing but their sex to recommend them."
preview | full record— Graves, Richard (1715-1804)
Date: 1793
"Her mind was a kind of circulating library in little, and I sincerely wish romances were always attended with the same good effects they produced in her; for there is scarcely a good moral inculcated by them that she did not act up to."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1793
"I am looking, madam,' said she, 'over the catalogue of my mind, to see if I have ever read any thing like it"
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1793
"She said she foresaw that, if his heart was not steel and adamant, he would be ruined; that she had read his mind thoroughly, and plainly saw that the only vice he had in the world was want of deceit."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1796
"I have read the emotions of your bosom; you are yet ill skilled in concealing them, and they could not escape my attentive eye."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)