Date: 1770-1
"By this time the choleric vapours, which madam had jogged downwards when she let her broad bottom salute the chair with such a whack, growing warm amongst the hodg-potch they found in her store-room, which we may properly stile a hot-house, began to ascend, and take possession of their former te...
preview | full record— Bridges, Thomas (b. 1710?, d. in or after 1775)
Date: 1771
"A small stock of ideas is more easily managed, and sooner displayed than a great quantity crowded together."
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1773
"It is not enough, said Annesly, to put weapons into those hands which never have been taught the use of them; the reading we recommend to youth will store their minds with intelligence, if they attend to it properly; but to go a little farther, we must accustom them to apply it, we must teach th...
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1773
"But as their novelty at first delighted, their frequency at last subdued him; his mind began to accustom itself to the hurry of thoughtless amusement, and to feel a painful vacancy, when the bustle of the scene was at any time changed for solitude."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: w. 1782, 1786, 1816
"They very politely invited Bababalouk to be of their party; but his head was full of other concerns."
preview | full record— Beckford, William (1760-1844)
Date: w. 1782, 1786, 1816
"The falling waters filled his soul with dejection, and his tears trickled down the jasmines he had caught from Nouronihar, and placed in his inflamed bosom."
preview | full record— Beckford, William (1760-1844)
Date: w. 1782, 1786, 1816
"The unexpected arrival of the Caliph and the splendour that marked his appearance, had already filled with emotion the ardent soul of Nouronihar."
preview | full record— Beckford, William (1760-1844)
Date: w. 1782, 1786, 1816
"Instantaneously, the haughty forehead of the intrepid princess became corrugated with agony: she uttered a tremendous yell; and fixed, no more to be withdrawn, her right hand upon her heart, which was become a receptacle of eternal fire."
preview | full record— Beckford, William (1760-1844)