Date: 1749
"Indeed what Square had said sunk very deeply into his Mind, and the Uneasiness which it there created was very visible to the other"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1749
"Now that Part of his Head which Nature designed for the Reservoir of Drink, being very shallow, a small Quantity of Liquor overflowed it, and opened the Sluices of his Heart; so that all the Secrets there deposited run out"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1750
"or, as a certain very eminent Author well observes, Fools having generally stronger Nerves, and less volatile Spirits, than Men of fine Understandings, that which will rouse the one, will make the other either stupid or frantick; and tho' it sometimes, while the Fit continues, strengthens the Im...
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1751
Venus "Bids the warm heart with friendship glow, / Or melt in pity's softer flow; / In chains our boasted reason bind, / And rule at will th'impassion'd mind."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1751
One may "pour forth the overflowings of his soul, and tell her that he neither could nor would survive her displeasure"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1752
The passions of hatred and revenge boil in the mind
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
"So many tender Ideas crowded at once into my Mind, that, if I may use the Expression, they almost dissolved my Heart."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1753
"The nymph, whose passions nature had filled to the brim, could not hear such a rhapsody unmoved"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1755
"So eager and intangled was our Hidalgo in this kind of history, that he would often read from morning to night, and from night to morning again, without interruption; till at last, the moisture of his brain being quite exhausted with indefatigable watching and study, he fairly lost his wits."
preview | full record— Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616); Smollett, Tobias (1721-1771)
Date: 1756, 1766
"In the softest, sweetest voice, she expressed herself, and without the least appearance of labour, her ideas seemed to flow from a vast fountain"
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)