Date: 1770
A judge may sit serene "Above all mists of passion"
preview | full record— Armstrong, John (1708/9-1779)
Date: 1773
"Her mind, pure and spotless as new-drifted snow, cou'd not so soon be tainted."
preview | full record— Hitchcock, Robert (d. 1809)
Date: 1778
If we may judge the inside of fashionable ladies' heads "by that without, they are confused enough of all conscience"
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Date: 1778
The heart like a bird to its nestling will fly, / And when by the weight of a parent its bending, / Yet wishes while constant to break and to die. / Like a bird in a snare, of its freedom bereft, / Still hoping and wishing releasement again, / 'Till clos'd in the cage the flutterer is left / To p...
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Date: 1781
Cold books "stamp but dead impressions on the mind"
preview | full record— Raspe, Rudolph Eric (1737-1794); Lessing, G. E. (1729-1781)
Date: 1782
"Have you shewn a jewel / Out of the cabinet of your rich mind / To lock it up again?"
preview | full record— Dudley, Sir Henry Bate (1745-1824)
Date: 1785
In the "scales of suspense" two fancies may be hung
preview | full record— MacNally, Leonard (1752-1820)
Date: 1785
"Love is a lady's profession, / Her heart is so tenderly cast, / Like wax it will take an impression, / But then the impression will last"
preview | full record— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)
Date: 1788
"[A guardian] claps a pen in my hand, and ties me like a seal to his ugly parchment, while my heart can receive no impression, but the idea of my beloved Aircourt"
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1788
"I own that my heart yields like wax to the impression of the little god"
preview | full record— Cobb, James (1756-1818)