Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"Here too is Paper; but it is as spotless as your Mind"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
Children are at a time in their life "when, like Wax, their tender Minds may be moulded into what Shape they please"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"I can write my whole Mind to you, tho' I cannot, from the most deplorable Infelicity, receive from you the wish'd for Favour of a few Lines in Return, written with the same Unreservedness."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747
"Now the Purpose for which [Lestrange] principally intended his Book, as in his Preface he spends a great many Words to inform us, was for the Use and Instruction of Children; who being, as it were, a mere rasa tabula, or blank Paper, are ready indifferently for any Opinion, good or bad, taking a...
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Aesop
Date: 1747
"What sort of Children therefore are the Blank Paper, upon which such Morality as this ought to be written?"
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Aesop
Date: 1747
"Let the Children of Italy, France, Spain, and the rest of the Popish Countries, furnish him with Blank Paper for Principles, of which free-born Britons are not capable."
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Aesop
Date: 1747-8
One's "delicate and even mind" may be see in "the very cut of her letters"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1749
Dirt or Rags cannot "hide this Something [in true Beauty] from those Souls which are not of the vulgar Stamp"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1749
"[L]et the Remembrance of what past at Upton blot me for ever from your Mind"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1751
"Surely, says I, this ought to be engraven on Brass, as I wish it was on my Heart"
preview | full record— Paltock, Robert (1697-1767)