Date: 1767
"Whilst he endeavoured to fill up the vacuity he found in his mind, his time was spent at best but in a sort of insipid tranquillity. The voluptuary has no taste for mental pleasures."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1768
"No doubt the ocean fills the mind with vast ideas."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1776
"Their hearts are tied up in their purses."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)