Date: 1723, 1725
"Reflection was unhing'd; the noble Seat of Memory fill'd with Chimera's and disjointed Notions; wild and confus'd Ideas whirl'd in his distracted Brain; and all the Man, except the Form, was changed."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1753
"We often see that to reverse this boasted constancy is the work of but a single minute,--and then in vain their past professions recoil upon their minds;--in vain the idea of the forsaken fair haunts them in nightly visions."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1754
"The mind would be little more than a channel through which ideas and notions glided from entity into nonentity."
preview | full record— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)