Date: 1768
"When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it, to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rose-buds of delights; and having taken a few turns in it, come back strengthen'd and refresh'd."
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
"Deprived by their extreme ignorance, and that indolence which nothing but their ardor for war can surmount, of all the conveniencies, as well as elegant refinements of polished life; strangers to the softer passions, love being with them on the same footing as amongst their fellow-tenants of the...
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1777
"She saw something like just drawing in the dark shades of his pencil, though the lines seemed a good deal exaggerated: she reflected, she doubted; but, after settling a balance in her mind, the found her own scale preponderate."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1777
"The eyes were the index of the mind--his had said--Good heavens! what had they not said?"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1814
"[H]er mind became cool enough to seek all the comfort that pride and self-revenge could give."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1814
"They have injured the finest mind!--for sometimes, Fanny, I own to you, it does appear more than manner; it appears as if the mind itself was tainted."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1814
"Then it occurred to her what might be going on; a suspicion rushed over her mind which drove the colour from her cheeks."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1814
"Here was another strange revolution of mind!"
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1816
"Her mind was divided between two ideas--her own former conversations with him about Miss Fairfax; and poor Harriet."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)