Date: 1761
"[Y]et were his offences against me even greater than they are, your example would teach me to blot them all from my mind"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"Your brother, narrow-hearted, inhuman wretch, I blot forever from my thoughts"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
One may be "by a blameless life, endeavouring to blot out the memory of her fault"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
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: 1761
"This was the master-key to her behaviour, and once I had got it, which I soon did, it was easy to unlock her breast."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"I have been a slave to a hopeless passion too long; I am now resolved to struggle with my chains: you, Madam, must assist me in breaking them intirely; and I make no doubt but that time, joined to my own efforts, and aided by your sweetness of disposition, your tenderness, and admirable sense, w...
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: 1764
"In the Eye of Reason the Prostitution of the Mind, which certainly leads to it, is little less offensive than the Prostitution of the Person."
preview | full record— Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
The "Action and Reaction" of different Estates "produces that general and systematic Controul which, like Conscience, pervades and superintends the Whole, checking and prohibiting Evil from every Part of the Constitution"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)