Date: 1747
"What sort of Children therefore are the Blank Paper, upon which such Morality as this ought to be written?"
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Aesop
Date: 1747
"Let the Children of Italy, France, Spain, and the rest of the Popish Countries, furnish him with Blank Paper for Principles, of which free-born Britons are not capable."
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Aesop
Date: 1747-8
One's "delicate and even mind" may be see in "the very cut of her letters"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1749
Dirt or Rags cannot "hide this Something [in true Beauty] from those Souls which are not of the vulgar Stamp"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1749
"[L]et the Remembrance of what past at Upton blot me for ever from your Mind"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1751
"Surely, says I, this ought to be engraven on Brass, as I wish it was on my Heart"
preview | full record— Paltock, Robert (1697-1767)
Date: 1751
The hand one writes may be "like her mind, solid and above all flourish"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1751
"I proceeded therefore--That I loved Familiar-letter-writing, as I had more than once told her, above all the species of writing: It was writing from the heart (without the fetters prescribed by method or study) as the very word 'Cor-respondence' implied"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1752
"'But you understand Human Nature to the Bottom,' answered Amelia;' and your Mind is a Treasury of all ancient and modern Learning.'"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
"I need not sign this Letter, otherwise than with that Impression of my Heart which I hope it bears"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)