Date: 1760-7
"A Man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin, and a jerkin's lining;--rumple the one--you rumple the other."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1761
"A veil of wisdom and honour makes so many folds about her heart, that it is impenetrable to human eyes, even to her own."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)
Date: 1777
"I retire to the family of my own thoughts, and find them in weeds of sorrow."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1777
"[T]here is, methinks, a languor in your last letter--or is it but the livery of my own imagination, which the objects around me are constrained to wear?"
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1796
"You! holding the next place to God in my breast, yet two days, and my heart will be unveiled to you."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)