Date: January 3, 1750-51, 1807
"Rein in, on these important subjects, your imagination."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: October 10, 1769
"My imagination without wing or broom stick off mounts aloft, rises into ye Regions of pure space, and without lett or impediment bears me to your fireside, where you can set me in your easy chair, and we talk and reason, as angel Host and guest Aetherial should do, of high and important matters."
preview | full record— Montagu [née Robinson], Elizabeth (1718-1800)
Date: 1774
"Acquire an easiness and versatility of manners, as well as of mind; and, like the chameleon, take the hue of the company you are with."
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)