Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"And all this time improve myself too, not only in Science, but in Nature, by tracing in the little Babes what all Mankind are, and have been, from Infancy to riper Years"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1744
"[T]he charming image of a city's brightest ornament" may be engraven on the heart by "the god of love ... in characters too indelible ever to be erased"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1751
"She slept longer than usual the next Morning, and it seemed as if some golden Dream was pictured in her Fancy"
preview | full record— Coventry, (William) Francis Walter (1725-1753/4)
Date: 1752
"What a Happiness have you painted to my Imagination!"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1763
"My tears streamed afresh when I beheld him, when I remembered the sweet hours we had passed together, the gay scenes which hope had painted to our hearts; I wept over the friend I had so loved, I pressed his cold hand to my lips."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Your impatience to fly to a place which your imagination has painted to you in colours so attractive, surprizes me not; I have only to hope that the liveliness of your fancy may not deceive you: to refuse, would be to raise it still higher."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"but it was not time, it was not the knowledge of his worth, obtained your regard; your new comrade had not patience to wait any trial; her glowing pencil, dipt in the vivid colours of her creative ideas, painted to you, at the moment of your first acquaintance, all the excellencies, all the good...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"In following her extraordinary director, her imagination had painted to her a scene such as she had so lately quitted, and prepared her to behold some family in distress, some helpless creature in sickness, or some children in want."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"[A]cquainted ere you meet that you were to meet him no more, your heart would be all softness and grief, and at the very moment when tenderness should be banished from your intercourse, it would bear down all opposition of judgment, spirit, and dignity: you would hang upon every word, because ev...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1788
"The same turn of mind which leads me to adore the Author of all Perfection--which leads me to conclude that he only can fill my soul; forces me to admire the faint image--the shadows of his attributes here below; and my imagination gives still bolder strokes to them."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)