Date: 1705
"Nature is a kind of Harmony, which by a strange Collection of Things, makes an Impression on our Senses and our Reason."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
When "Interest and Inclination stand Candidates for Preference, we then trick with Virtue, and put the Cheat upon Honour; we impose upon our Understandings, and force our Judgments; nay more, we depose even Reason itself, and give Passions the Regency; and when our Minds are thus untun'd, our Act...
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
Our Minds may be "untun'd," so that "our Actions soon joyn in the same Discord; post-pone the Laws of the Gods, and make those of our Country ineffectual"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1713, 1719
"Thus I ran Divisions in my Fancy, which made but harsh Musick to my Interiour"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1736
"To these he added many other consolatory Expressions; and a handsome Repast being served in, entertain'd her all the time with such Discourses as entirely brought her back to those Principles from which the Delusions of Ochihatou had made her swerve; and, at the same time, establish'd so perfect...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"Now chear your Heart, and sing a Song, / And tune your Mind to Joy."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"Your two Souls, I can see that, are like well-tun'd Instruments: But they are too high-set for me a vast deal."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"A man who is gross in a woman's company ought to be knocked down with a club: for, like so many musical instruments, touch but a single wire, and the dear souls are sensible all over "
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
"When temptations arise, and virtue staggers, let imagination sound the final trumpet, and judgment lay hold on eternal Life"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
"My dear Dr. Bartlett, said he, your soul is harmony: I doubt not but all these are in order"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)