Date: 1751
Venus "Bids the warm heart with friendship glow, / Or melt in pity's softer flow; / In chains our boasted reason bind, / And rule at will th'impassion'd mind."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: Tuesday, March 5, 1751
"Thus, in a short time, I had heated my imagination to such a state of activity and ebullition, that upon every occasion it fumed away in bursts of wit, and evaporations of gaiety."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Saturday, March 30, 1751
"He that will not suffer himself to be discouraged by fancied impossibilities, may sometimes find his abilities invigorated by the necessity of exerting them in short intervals, as the force of a current is increased by the contraction of its channel."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Tuesday, January 22, 1751
"It is, perhaps, not impossible to promote the cure of this mental malady, by close application to some new study, which may pour in fresh ideas, and keep curiosity in perpetual motion."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1752, 1791
"Thy appetites in easy tides / (As reason's luminary guides) / Soft flow--no wind can work them to a storm, / Correctly quick, dispassionately warm."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: Saturday, February 29, 1752
"He retired again to his private chamber, and sought for consolation in his own mind; one thought flowed in upon another; a long succession of images seized his attention; the moments crept imperceptibly away through the gloom of pensiveness, till, having recovered his tranquillity, he lifted his...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1752
The passions of hatred and revenge boil in the mind
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
"So many tender Ideas crowded at once into my Mind, that, if I may use the Expression, they almost dissolved my Heart."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1753
The "Sunshine of a northern Beauty is too feeble to thaw the icy Heart of a French Courtier"
preview | full record— Foote, Samuel (1720-1777)
Date: Tuesday, August 14, 1753
"But from the opposite errour, from torpid despondency, can come no advantage; it is the frost of the soul, which binds up all its powers, and congeals life in perpetual sterility."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)