Date: 1767
"The vacancy he found in his heart was insupportable."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1767
"Whilst he endeavoured to fill up the vacuity he found in his mind, his time was spent at best but in a sort of insipid tranquillity. The voluptuary has no taste for mental pleasures."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1768
"No doubt the ocean fills the mind with vast ideas."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1770-1
"By this time the choleric vapours, which madam had jogged downwards when she let her broad bottom salute the chair with such a whack, growing warm amongst the hodg-potch they found in her store-room, which we may properly stile a hot-house, began to ascend, and take possession of their former te...
preview | full record— Bridges, Thomas (b. 1710?, d. in or after 1775)
Date: 1771
"A small stock of ideas is more easily managed, and sooner displayed than a great quantity crowded together."
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1773
"It is not enough, said Annesly, to put weapons into those hands which never have been taught the use of them; the reading we recommend to youth will store their minds with intelligence, if they attend to it properly; but to go a little farther, we must accustom them to apply it, we must teach th...
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1773
"But as their novelty at first delighted, their frequency at last subdued him; his mind began to accustom itself to the hurry of thoughtless amusement, and to feel a painful vacancy, when the bustle of the scene was at any time changed for solitude."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1776
"Their hearts are tied up in their purses."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1777
"She passed the night without rest; the ideas of coaches, coronets, titles, filled her mind, and effectually murdered sleep."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Yes, my child, thy happiness is engraved, in golden characters, upon the tablets of my heart! and their impression is indelible; for, should the rude and deep-searching hand of Misfortune attempt to pluck them from their repository, the fleeting fabric of life would give way, and in tearing from...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)