Date: 1761
"Hitherto her memory had been wholly suspended by violent passions, which had crowded upon her in a rapid and uninterrupted succession, and the first gleam of recollection threw her into a new agony"
preview | full record— Hawkesworth, John (bap. 1720, d. 1773)
Date: 1761
"For again, I say, if happiness and peace dwell not in Eloisa's mind, I know not where they will find an asylum on earth."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)
Date: 1763
"This tender, this exquisite affection, has diffused a spirit through our whole lives, and given a charm to the most common occurrences; a charm to which the dulness of apathy, and the fever of guilty passion, are equally strangers."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"I have often suspected Isabella's indifference to my son: a thousand circumstances crowd on my mind that confirm that suspicion."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"No, Bianca; his heart was ever a stranger to me--but he is my father, and I must not complain."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
"The old Gentleman beheld all with a Pleasure that had long been a Stranger to his Breast, and shared in the Joys of his young Associate"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
"[A]nd then it was that my Sins came crowding into my Mind, and I believe I was the only Person of the Ship's Company who trembled"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1767
"If this be all, cried Nourjahad, then am I sure I shall never incur the penalty; for though I mean to enjoy all the pleasures that life can bestow, yet am I a stranger to my own heart, if it ever lead me to the wilful commission of a crime."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1768
"Every dirty passion, and bad propensity in my nature, took the alarm, as I stated the proposition."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1769
"He knew when to distract its weak brain with a tumult of incongruous and contradictory ideas: he knew when to overwhelm its feeble faculty of thinking, by pouring in a torrent of words without any ideas annexed. These throng in like city-milliners to a Mile-end assembly, while it happens to be u...
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)