Date: 1761
"Love has insinuated itself too far into your mind, for you ever to drive it thence. It has eaten its way, has penetrated into its inmoft recesses, like a corrosive menstruum, whose impressions you will never be able to efface, without deftroying at the same time all that virtuous sensibility you...
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)
Date: 1766
"The blossom opening to the day, / The dews of heaven refin'd, / Could nought of purity display, / To emulate his mind."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)