Date: 1749
"Refinement was not able to stand very long against the Voice of Nature, which cried in his Heart, that such Friendship was Treason to Love."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1750
"For then, tho' I cannot give you my Heart, I shall have given you a Title to it, and you will have a lawful Claim to its Allegiance"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1751
"This Speech, I own, gave me the first Reflection I ever had in my Life, and lock'd up all my Faculties for a long Time; nor was I able, for the Variety of Ideas that crowded my Brain, to make a Word of Answer, but stood like an Image of Stone"
preview | full record— Paltock, Robert (1697-1767)
Date: 1751
"Tears gushing again, my heart fluttering as a bird against its wires; drying my eyes again and again to no purpose."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1751
"in consequence of which, he mustered up the ideas of his first passion, and set them in opposition to those of this new and dangerous attachment; by which means, he kept the balance in equilibrio, and his bosom tolerably quiet."
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1751
The imagination may be "incessantly haunted" by the "apprehensions of a jail"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1751
Ideas of a love object with another lover may haunt the imagination
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Date: 1752
"The Fear of which so affected the Serjeant, (for besides the Honour which he himself had for the Lady, he knew how tenderly his Friend loved her) that he was unable to speak; and had not his Nerves been so strongly braced that nothing could shake them, he had enough in his Mind to have set him a...
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Date: 1752
"All the Reasons on which she had founded her Love, recurred in the strongest and liveliest Colours to her Mind"
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Date: 1752
"[O]n such Occasions the Mind is ever employed in raising a thousand Bugbears and Fantoms, much more dreadful than any Realities, and like Children, when they tell Tales of Hobgoblins, seems industrious in terrifying itself"
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