Date: 1765 [1764]
"No, Isabella, said the princess, I should not deserve this incomparable parent, if the inmost recesses of my soul harboured a thought without her permission."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1768
"I conceive every fair being as a temple, and would rather enter in, and see the original drawings and loose sketches hung up in it, than the transfiguration of Raphael itself."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)