Date: 1722, 1723
The "Laws of Honour" may be "printed by the Laws of Nature in the Breast of a Soldier, or a Man of Honour"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1724, 1725
"[H]is Image was too deeply impress'd in her Mind, ever to banish it thence, tho' effac'd and blotted by the Memory of his Crimes"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: [1726]
"Let what I have said be written in thy Heart, and keep it ever treasured in thy Mind."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1736
"That Ypre, which inspires the Lust of arbitrary Sway, now twisted its envenom'd Tail round the Heart of Eovaai; and, in an instant, erased all the Maxims the wise Eojaeu had endeavoured to establish there: so easy is it for the best Natures to be perverted, when Example rouses up the Sparks of s...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1736
"And as I am resolved, in spite of the Pleasure I take in gazing on them, to condemn myself to an eternal Absence, and to do every thing in my power to obliterate all Ideas from my Heart, that may render it an unworthy Offering to the Owner of this Jewel."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"Here too is Paper; but it is as spotless as your Mind"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
Children are at a time in their life "when, like Wax, their tender Minds may be moulded into what Shape they please"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"I can write my whole Mind to you, tho' I cannot, from the most deplorable Infelicity, receive from you the wish'd for Favour of a few Lines in Return, written with the same Unreservedness."
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: 1744
"Burn this paper, I conjure you, the moment you have read it; but lay the contents of it up in your heart never to be forgotten."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)