Date: 1761
"[M]any, therefore, may violate that rule of right, which the hand of the Almighty has written upon the living tablets of the heart"
preview | full record— Hawkesworth, John (bap. 1720, d. 1773)
Date: 1762
"Your constant endeavours have been to inculcate the best principles into youthful minds, the only probable means of mending mankind; for the foundation of most of our virtues, or our vices, are laid in that season of life when we are most susceptible of impression, and when our minds, as on a sh...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"He reverenced and respected her like a divinity, but hoped that prudence might enable him to conquer his passion, at the same time that it had not force enough to determine him to fly her presence, the only possible means of lessening the impression which every hour engraved more deeply on his h...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1763
"I recollect those dear moments of confidence and friendship engraved for ever on my heart."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1763
"The graces of that form are lost, those lips have ceased to utter the generous sentiments of the noblest heart which ever beat; but never will his varied perfections be blotted from the mind of his father."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1763
"What a day have I passed! may the idea of it be ever blotted from my mind!"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"Manfred, who, though he had distinguished her by great indulgence, had imprinted her mind with terror from his causeless rigour to such amiable princesses as Hippolita and Matilda."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"There is not a sentiment engraven on my heart, that does not venerate you and yours."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1769
"What gratitude do we not owe to heaven! may the sense of it be for ever engraven on our hearts!"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1773
"I blot from my memory every other woman; those every-day beauties (as Terence calls them) who have nothing but their sex to recommend them."
preview | full record— Graves, Richard (1715-1804)