Date: 1752
"What a Happiness have you painted to my Imagination!"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1754
A mind may be cast in a different mould
preview | full record— Clark [née Lewis], Esther (bap. 1716, d. 1794)
Date: 1754
"The scene of the mind, like a moving picture, must be governed with attention, that it may bring into our view the images we want, and as we want them. Otherwise ideas that are foreign to our actual train of thinking will frequently rush into our thoughts, and become objects of them whether we w...
preview | full record— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
Date: 1754
"When they have really such ideas in their minds, they must remember too that figures and comparisons are varnish still. It must not be used to alter the intellectual picture, it must only serve to give a greater lustre, and to make it better seen."
preview | full record— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
Date: 1755
"But what Imagination can paint the Extravagance of Joy I felt on this happy Acquisition!"
preview | full record— Charke [née Cibber; other married name Sacheverell], Charlotte [alias Mr Brown] (1713-1760)
Date: 1761
"No, thou art all that's elegant and fair, / And perfect upon earth; and Caius happy / Beyond whatever gratitude express'd, / Or fancy drew, when glowing raptures catch / The poet's breast, and set the soul on fire."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1762
"[M]ake this dear-bought soul of mine / A monument of grace Divine"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
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: 1766
"If society be formed, by the communication of ideas and sentiments, speech, is, undoubtedly, its most essential and most graceful band, being, at once, the pencil of the mind, the image of its operations, and, the interpreter of the heart."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1766
"These three words denote, equally, an advantageous state, and agreeable situation; but that of happiness, marks, properly, the state of fortune, capable of dispensing pleasures, and placing them within our reach; that of felicity, expresses, particularly, the state of the heart; disposed to tast...
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)