Date: 1768
"Every dirty passion, and bad propensity in my nature, took the alarm, as I stated the proposition."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1769
"The first moment I saw Colonel Rivers convinced me my heart had till then been a stranger to true tenderness"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1777
"His heart, for a moment, revolted at the idea of seduction; but he soon silenced the unwelcome monitor."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)