Date: 1761
"Give me this Fury to asswage / One Drop, from some yet moist'ned Bowl / To cool the Fever in my Soul!"
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1767
"She hath buried my heart in sorrow, and engraven dishonour on the tomb of her ancestors"
preview | full record— Hull, Thomas (1728-1808); Tuke, Sir Samuel (d. 1624)
Date: 1769
Cares may "torment my tortur'd mind, / Leaving their rugged tracts behind"
preview | full record— Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)
Date: 1773
Philosophers hold the soul to be of no sex
preview | full record— Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)
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
"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
The thunder of words may sour the "milk of human kindness" in the breast
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)