Date: 1775
The imagination in its fullest enjoyments becomes suspicious of its offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
"If there be but one vicious mind in the Set, 'twill spread like a contagion--the action of their pulse beats to the lascivious movement of the jigg--their quivering, warm-breath'd sighs impregnate the very air--the atmosphere becomes electrical to love, and each amorous spark darts thro' every l...
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
The thunder of words may sour the "milk of human kindness" in the breast
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1779
"There are, my Liege, who have with groundless jealousy / Poison'd Lord Edward's mind, and work'd on him / To yield to infamy his spotless Bride."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: May 18, 1782, 1785
"Why is the countenance made a mask for the soul, when it should be a mirror, in which every eye might behold the true features of the mind, in the deformity of vice, or the loveliness of virtue!"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1788
"The mind's disease, perhaps, I'm not less a stranger to--Oh! trust the noble patient to my care."
preview | full record— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)