Date: 1728
"A Lover, when he is admitted to Cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the Motions of his Mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he shou'd be the Shadow of her Mind."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1728
"I know not why it is, but certainly a Woman is the least liable to play the Fool here; perhaps, the Hurry of Diversions and Company keep the Mind in too perpetual a Motion to let it fix on one Object."
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Date: 1730
Love is a "strange unruly Something in the Soul" that "like a Fire once kindled in a Mine, / Can ne'er be thoroughly quench'd"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1730
An image may be "too strongly stamp'd, to be soon effac'd" from one's [breast? mind?]
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1730
The "Charms of Modesty" may "kindle Virtues in the roughest Breast" "like the Sun-beams ripening Gems in Rocks"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1730
A beauteous face may be the index of a beauteous mind
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1730
"They [women] would meet our Inclinations three parts of the way, but that Pride is their predominant Passion, and 'tis a greater Gratification to 'em to make a Man their Slave, than their Gallant."
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Date: 1730
"Before you think of Stamping your Seal upon a Lady's Heart, you must first fix it upon Parchment"
preview | full record— Odingsells, Gabriel (1690-1734)
Date: 1730
"I was in hopes his mean Attempt on my Virtue, had banish'd every tender Thought of him from my Breast"
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Date: 1730
"[C]an thy Passions so out-strip thy Reason, to send thee wading through Falshood, Perjury, and Murther, after a flying Light which you can ne'er o'ertake!"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)