Date: 1720
"Ah vile Heart, more obdurate and harder than Adamant! upon this cruel Anvil was forged the Chains that bound up my unlucky Destiny!"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1726
" For as the Face is the Index of the Mind, I am of Opinion, a Person of nice Judgment and Observation may discover a false Passion, with as much ease, as a Jeweller would distinguish the different Species of Stones (if we may call them so.)"
preview | full record— Chetwood, William Rufus (d. 1766)
Date: 1747-8
"Because a woman's heart may be at one time adamant, at another wax."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1752
"His Mind was formed of those firm Materials, of which Nature formerly hammered out the Stoic, and upon which the Sorrows of no Man living could make an Impression. "
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)