Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"And all this time improve myself too, not only in Science, but in Nature, by tracing in the little Babes what all Mankind are, and have been, from Infancy to riper Years"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1748
"[U]nless my image had been engraven on her heart, it would have been impossible to know me for the person who had worn her aunt's livery"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1751
"She slept longer than usual the next Morning, and it seemed as if some golden Dream was pictured in her Fancy"
preview | full record— Coventry, (William) Francis Walter (1725-1753/4)
Date: 1752
"What a Happiness have you painted to my Imagination!"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1760-7
"To conceive this right,--call for pen and ink--here's paper ready to your hand. --Sit down, Sir, paint her to your own mind"
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1761
"I admire and revere the purity of your sentiments, the innocence of your life; I trace out in my mind the method of your daily conduct, by comparing it with what I formerly well knew in happier days, and under more endearing circumstances."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)
Date: 1766
"My fancy draws that harmless groupe as listening to every line of this with great composure."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1768
"The mind sits terrified at the objects she has magnified herself and blackened; reduce them to their proper size and hue she overlooks them."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1768
"I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1768
"I conceive every fair being as a temple, and would rather enter in, and see the original drawings and loose sketches hung up in it, than the transfiguration of Raphael itself."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)