Date: 1747-8
"I can fancy, that to pink my body like my mind, I need only to be put into a hogshead stuck full of steel-pointed spikes, and rolled down a hill three times as high as the Monument."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"But the over-refinement of Platonic sentiments always sinks into the dross and feces of that Passion"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"If it were only, that I can see this man without losing any of that dignity (what other word can I use, speaking of myself, that betokens decency, and not arrogance?) which is so necessary to enable me to look up, or rather, with the mind's eye, I may say, to l...
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"Which, by recording the principal circumstances of past facts, and laying them close together, in a continued narration, kept the mind from languishing, and gave constant exercise to its reflections."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"And that the Whole would be thereby deprived of that Variety, which is deemed the Soul of a Feast, whether mensal or mental."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"If in look, if in speech, a girl waves way to undue levity, depend upon it, the devil has got one of his cloven feet in her heart already."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1749
"For Philosophy and Religion may be called the Exercises of the Mind, and when this is disordered they are as wholesome as Exercise can be to a distempered Body."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1751
One may suffer "the poignant anguish of a bleeding heart"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1751
"The wretched doctor weltring in blood, Belmein (distracted with remorse) flying from justice, my father menacing me with the most dreadful wrath, were the sad images that rose to my tortured imagination, and never left me a moment's ease"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1751
"I never was so happy as to make any impression on your heart; you have, no doubt, reserved that glorious conquest for one more deserving than Belmein"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)