Date: 1720
"Severity makes more Hypocrites than any Sort of Discipline; streight lacing the Body may make us good Shapes, but there's no streight lacing our Minds."
preview | full record— Shadwell, Charles (fl. 1692-1720)
Date: 1722
"I met her this morning in a new manteau and petticoat, not a bit worse for her lady's wearing, and she has always new thoughts and new airs with new clothes."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1739
"O I will / Of private Passions all my Soul divest, / And take my dearer Country to my Breast."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1775
"If I wear a countenance of content, it is to shew that my mind holds no doubt of my Faulkland's truth."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)