Date: w. 1732, 1743, 1752
Reason may "fix it's Empire o'er [one's] Heart"
preview | full record— Hammond, James (1710-1742)
Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"The groves of Kew, however misapplied / To serve the purposes of lust and pride, / Were, by the greater monarch's care, designed / A place of conversation for the mind; / Where solitude and silence should remain, / And conscience keep her sessions and arraign."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1774
"I expect the incomparable fair one of Hamburg, that prodigy of beauty, and paragon of good sense, who has enslaved your mind, and inflamed your heart."
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: 1774
"Please the eyes and the ears, they will introduce you to the heart; and nine times in ten, the heart governs the understanding."
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: 1774
"It is a very old and very true maxim, that those kings reign the most secure and the most absolute, who reign in the hearts of their people."
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: 1774
"Vanity is unquestionably the ruling passion in women; and it is much flattered by the attentions of a man who is generally esteemed by men; when his merit has received the stamp of their approbation, women make it current, that is to say, put him in fashion."
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: w. 1769, 1784
"Happy (if Mortals can be) is the Man, / Who, not by Priest but Reason, rules his span:"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)