Date: 1760-7
"Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal; but Gold and Silver will pass all the world over without any other recommendation than their own weight."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1760-7
"There was the great king Aldrovandus, and Bosphorus, and Capadocius, and Dardanus, and Pontus, and Asius,--to say nothing of the iron-hearted Charles the XIIth, whom the Countess of K***** herself could make nothing of"
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1762
"He therefore had been little used to any woman but his sober and sensible grand-mother's two cousins who were pretty enough, but had no great charms of understanding; a sister rather silly, and the incomparable Harriot, whose wit was as sound as her judgment solid and sterling, free from affecta...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1766
"[I]t was a truth her reason could more easily perceive, than her heart feel, for it was steeled by habit"
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1768
"He gave a deep sigh--I saw the iron enter into his soul--I burst into tear"
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1768
"But 'tis a civil thing, said I--and as I generally act from the first impulse, and therefore seldom listen to these cabals, which serve no purpose, that I know of, but to encompass the heart with adamant--I turn'd instantly about to the lady."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1768
"Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions, tell me, what trespass is it that man should have them?"
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1769
"To the arts of the libertine, however fair, my heart had always been steeled."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)