Date: 1765
"By reason's standard, then, you judge amiss / Of those whose legislator is caprice."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1765
"I fancy that blanks would do still better, as some authors have lately used them, merely to make up bulk, and stuff life's volume."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1765
"She vile, she artful! thou art a monster but to think it. Her mind and person are as pure as mountain-snow, which the sun's beams have never glanced upon."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
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: 1766
"My dear Louisa, your watch and your passions keep pace; it wants some minutes of seven; but I cou'd wish from my heart, that almost any accident might prevent this meeting"
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1767
"[I]ndeed, in her more serious moments, which are but few, she, perhaps, gives me an hearing, when all at once a crowd of gayer thoughts rush on, and kill at once the hopes wherewith I was elated a few minutes before"
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1767
"Be rul'd by reason for your beauty's sake."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1767
"Beauty, ye fair, may forge the lover's chain; / But the mind's charms your empire must maintain."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1768
"Hope and fear alternate rising, / Strive for empire o'er my heart."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1769
A debt of gratitude to parents is "stamp'd upon our frames; In polish'd minds it shines the most"
preview | full record— Reed, Joseph (1723-1787)