Date: 1761
"Give me this Fury to asswage / One Drop, from some yet moist'ned Bowl / To cool the Fever in my Soul!"
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1766
"I must believe you, Emily; there is a charm in truth, that strikes upon the mind, like light upon our eyes"
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1775
The imagination in its fullest enjoyments becomes suspicious of its offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
"If there be but one vicious mind in the Set, 'twill spread like a contagion--the action of their pulse beats to the lascivious movement of the jigg--their quivering, warm-breath'd sighs impregnate the very air--the atmosphere becomes electrical to love, and each amorous spark darts thro' every l...
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
The thunder of words may sour the "milk of human kindness" in the breast
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: May 18, 1782, 1785
"Why is the countenance made a mask for the soul, when it should be a mirror, in which every eye might behold the true features of the mind, in the deformity of vice, or the loveliness of virtue!"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)