Date: 1725
"I will give you the saddest Account you have ever yet been entertain'd with; but you must wrap your Heart in a Case of Adamant, or it will melt away in the hearing of it."
preview | full record— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)
Date: 1724, 1725
"[Love] that Tyrant Passion lords it o'er the Mind, fills every Faculty, and leaves no room for any other Thought--drives Consideration far away--overturns Reflection-- and permits no Image but itself to dwell in Fancy's Region"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1725
"It would be as impossible to describe the Astonishment, and pleas'd Admiration, which fill'd the Soul of Felisinda, at so uncommon a proof of disinterested Affection, as it wou'd the Vexation of Alvario, when by the same Messenger he receiv'd a Letter from Don Carlos, containing these Lines."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: [1726]
"Let what I have said be written in thy Heart, and keep it ever treasured in thy Mind."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1732
"This fill'd her Mind with torturing Agonies; and her whole Soul bled for this Carlo's victim, whom there was now no way Wit could invent to rescue from the Danger."
preview | full record— Boyd, Elizabeth (fl. 1727-1745)
Date: 1736
"Thus ended Emoe her little Narrative, and returned to her former Demonstrations of Joy, for the sight of her Royal Mistress; but how impossible is it to describe the Transport with which her Words had fill'd the Soul of Eovaai: to find, in the Preserver of her Life, the Preserver of her whole Pe...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
The mind may be a "a Magazine of Virtue and unblemish'd Thoughts."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1744
"Burn this paper, I conjure you, the moment you have read it; but lay the contents of it up in your heart never to be forgotten."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1744, 1753
"I believe, the Man, who has, with any moderate Degree of Carefulness, examined his own Mind, will not think the Discovery very new, that our Inclinations often stifle and render abortive Images beginning to arise in our Minds, and place others in their room"
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)