Date: 1762
"After rubbing her hands and feet till they were sore, suffocating her with burnt feathers, and half poisoning her with medicines, Sir Charles and her servants so far brought her to life, that after sending her attendants out of the room, she had just power to tell him, 'she had discovered an int...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"An idle mind, like fallow ground, is the soil for every weed to grow in; in it vice strengthens, the seed of every vanity flourishes unmolested and luxuriant; discontent, malignity, ill humour, spread far and wide, and the mind becomes a chaos, which it is beyond human power to call into order a...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"Mad with despair, I have sought all means of obtaining, what I imagined the only cure for my distempered mind."
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"I have now my love discharged the burden from my mind."
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"She sometimes thought what he said was just, but aware of her partiality, she could not believe herself an unprejudiced judge, and feared that she might mistake the sophistry of love, for the voice of reason."
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1763
"He will by this means too escape the pernicious snares of flattery, the servile court of interested inferiors, and all the various mischiefs which poison the minds of young men bred up as heirs to great estates and titles."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"This bitter taunt galled the soul of Manfred."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1766
One may suffer in the interior of his or her heart by the decease of another
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1769
"Deprived by their extreme ignorance, and that indolence which nothing but their ardor for war can surmount, of all the conveniencies, as well as elegant refinements of polished life; strangers to the softer passions, love being with them on the same footing as amongst their fellow-tenants of the...
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1770-1
"This rather disconcerted his scheme, and set him a scratching, that being a kind of involuntary motion with him, whenever a train of ideas kept whirling in his brain with such velocity that he could not fix on any single one to stick by, and let the rest whirl out the way they came in."
preview | full record— Bridges, Thomas (b. 1710?, d. in or after 1775)