Date: 1768
"Hope and fear alternate rising, / Strive for empire o'er my heart."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1769
A debt of gratitude to parents is "stamp'd upon our frames; In polish'd minds it shines the most"
preview | full record— Reed, Joseph (1723-1787)
Date: 1769
"Your beauteous looks inspire my mind / With passion of the purest kind: / No selfish views my bosom sway, / But all is love without allay."
preview | full record— Reed, Joseph (1723-1787)
Date: 1775
Faded ideas float in the fancy like half-forgotten dreams
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
The imagination in its fullest enjoyments becomes suspicious of its offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
A fellow may be forgotten--illiterated from the memory
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
One may carry with him "all the flimsy furniture of a country Miss's brain"
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
"If there be but one vicious mind in the Set, 'twill spread like a contagion--the action of their pulse beats to the lascivious movement of the jigg--their quivering, warm-breath'd sighs impregnate the very air--the atmosphere becomes electrical to love, and each amorous spark darts thro' every l...
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
"If I wear a countenance of content, it is to shew that my mind holds no doubt of my Faulkland's truth."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
"Yet--yet--perhaps your high respect alone for this solemn compact has fettered your inclinations, which else had made worthier choice."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)