Date: 1760-7
"Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal; but Gold and Silver will pass all the world over without any other recommendation than their own weight."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1760-7
"There was the great king Aldrovandus, and Bosphorus, and Capadocius, and Dardanus, and Pontus, and Asius,--to say nothing of the iron-hearted Charles the XIIth, whom the Countess of K***** herself could make nothing of"
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1761
Faulkland has "steeled my husband's heart against me, heaped infamy on my head, and loaded my mother's age with sorrow and remorse"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"If the unfortunate Mr. Arnold sees his error, can you be so unchristian as to endeavour at steeling his wife's heart against him?"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1764
"Shall the winged Inhabitants of Air come tamely to the Hand that feeds them; and shall Man steel his Heart against all Impressions of Kindness, and all Sentiments of GRATITUDE?"
preview | full record— Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
"O, my Sister, I would to Heaven that he had now been present, as I have been present, to have his Soul melted and minted as mine has been"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
"[H]is Heart must have been harder than the Stones of Thebes, if you did not attract it and move it, at pleasure, by the Touch of those Fingers and the Bewitchment of those Accents"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
"I was melted down and minted anew, as it were, by the unaffected Warmth and Innocence of your Caresses"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
"Heart must be wrung by many Engines, it shall be tried in many Fires, but I trust it is a golden Heart, and will come forth with all its Weight"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
"These ever apparent Ensigns of so dearly purchased Benefits shall inevitably attract the Wills of all Creatures, they shall cause all Hearts and Affections to rush and cleave to him, as Steel Dust rushes to Adamant, and as Spokes stick in the Nave whereon they are centred."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)