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)
Date: 1775
"I'll wait till her just resentment is abated--and when I distress her so again, may I lose her for ever! and be linked instead to some antique virago, whose knawing passions, and long-hoarded spleen, shall make me curse my folly half the day, and all the night!"
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
Women, "like garden-trees," seldom show fruit, "till time has robbed them of the more specious blossom"
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
One may be so distressed as to be given "hydrostatics"
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
The thunder of words may sour the "milk of human kindness" in the breast
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
A new light may break in upon someone
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
"[B]e assured I throw the original from my heart as easily!"
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
"That heart, by war and honour steel'd to fear, / Droops on a sigh, and sickens at a tear!"
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1776
"he more approaching to the testimony of our senses every philosophical solution is, the more perhaps is it conformable to nature."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1777
"Stand to your guns! my hearts of oak, / Let not a word on board be spoke."
preview | full record— Thomas Carter (c. 1735, d. 1804)