Date: 1751
"Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid / Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire."
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
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)
Date: 1751
"I am here, thought I, like a poor condemned Criminal, who knows his Execution is fixed for such a Day, nay such an Hour, and dies over and over in Imagination, and by the Torture of his Mind, till that Hour comes"
preview | full record— Paltock, Robert (1697-1767)
Date: January 3, 1750-51, 1807
"He may confine their bodies; but the free soul will be out of his power, which only love and gratitude can bind."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: Tuesday, March 12, 1751
"Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy, however otherwise insipid, by which it may be quenched."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Saturday, March 16, 1751
"[B]ut the mind once habituated to the lusciousness of eulogy, becomes, in a short time, nice and fastidious, and, like a vitiated palate, is incessantly calling for higher gratifications."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Saturday, April 6, 1751
"Austerity is the proper antidote to indulgence; the diseases of mind as well as body are cured by contraries, and to contraries we should readily have recourse, if we dreaded guilt as we dread pain."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Tuesday, November 1751
"As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)