Date: 1741
"But under this macerated form was concealed a mind replete with science, burning with a zeal of benefiting his fellow-creatures, and filled with an honest conscious pride, mixed with a scorn of doing or suffering the least thing beneath the dignity of a philosopher."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Arbuthnot, John (bap. 1677, d. 1735)
Date: 1751
A heart may be possessed of a "sincere and honourable flame"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1753
One may make a new conquest and gain "a heart all flaming and adoration"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1753
"A young amorous heart, I think, may with some analogy be compared to tinder, as it is ready to take fire from every spark that falls"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)