Date: 1770
"Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, / The soul adopts and owns their firstborn sway; / Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, / Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1770
"But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. / As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, / Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, / Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, / Eternal sunshine settles on its head."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1770
"Imagination fondly stoops to trace / The parlour splendours of that festive place."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1770
"I acknowlege myself coxcomb enough to have been pleased with the conquest of a heart on which I set not the least value"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1770
"Mr. Falkland began with beseeching lord V--- to blot from his memory his past ill conduct, for which he expressed the sincerest contrition"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1770
"There were some passages in both your letters that plucked my very heart-strings"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1771
"Immortal Truth his bosom steels, / And guards him glorious to the goal"
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1771
"The infant mind at coming to the world, is a meer rasa tabula, destitute of all ideas and materials of reflection."
preview | full record— Usher, James (1720-1771)
Date: 1771
"It is a charte blanche, ready for receiving the inscriptions of sense; yet it behoves us carefully to observe, that it differs from a rasa tabula or a sheet of clean paper, in the following respect, that you may write on clean paper; that sugar is bitter, wormwood sweet, fire and f...
preview | full record— Usher, James (1720-1771)
Date: March 5, 1772
"True worth alone can form the charm that binds, / And rivet beauty's chains upon the mind."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)