Date: 1762

"The tenderest affections of her heart were too much concerned in what she had done, to leave her the power of feeling any apprehensions of poverty; all the evils that attend it then appeared to her so entirely external, that she beheld them with the calm philosophy of a stoic, and not from a ver...

— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)

Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762

"He revolved the late adventure of the coach, and the declaration of Mr. Clarke, with equal eagerness and astonishment; and was seized with the most ardent desire of unravelling a mystery so interesting to the predominant passion of his heart."

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)

Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762

A sacred idea may be throned within the heart and "cherished with such fervency of regard, with such reverence of affection, as the devout anchorite more unreasonably pays to those sainted reliques that constitute the object of his adoration"

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)

Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762

A woman may be "possessed of that vigour of mind which constitutes true fortitude, and vindicates the empire of reason"

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)

Date: 1762

"Reason governed her thoughts and actions, nor could the greatest flow of spirits make her for a moment forget propriety."

— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)

Date: 1763

"I will leave Belmont: her will is the law of my heart; yet a few days I must give to love."

— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)

Date: 1765 [1764]

"Arriving there, he sought the gloomiest shades, as best suited to the pleasing melancholy that reigned in his mind."

— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)

Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

The "Action and Reaction" of different Estates "produces that general and systematic Controul which, like Conscience, pervades and superintends the Whole, checking and prohibiting Evil from every Part of the Constitution"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

A beloved may be a "Regent within" and "sit throned in [a lover's] Heart"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

An affection may get "an habitual Empire in the Mind"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)