Date: 1760-7
The gifts and endowments of wit and judgment may "be poured down warm as each of us could bear it,--scum and sediment an' all; (for I would not have a drop lost) into these veral receptacles, cells, cellules, domiciles, dormitories, refectories, and spare places of our brains,--in such sort, that...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1778, 1779
"'Oh, Sir,' exclaimed I, 'that you could but read my heart!--that you could but see the filial tenderness and concern with which it overflows! you would not then talk thus,--you would not then banish me your presence, and exclude me from your affection!'"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Hasten, then, my love, to bless me with thy presence, and to receive the blessings with which my fond heart overflows!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: w. 1782, 1786, 1816
"The falling waters filled his soul with dejection, and his tears trickled down the jasmines he had caught from Nouronihar, and placed in his inflamed bosom."
preview | full record— Beckford, William (1760-1844)
Date: 1788
"But in pouring her sorrows into the bosom of her friend she appeared to find great consolation."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)