Date: 1751
"All the senses, like the family at Harlowe-Place, in a confederacy against that which would animate, and give honour to the whole, were it allowed its proper precedence"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: w. 1782, 1786, 1816
"All the stories of malignant Dives and dismal Goules thronged into her memory: but, her curiosity was, notwithstanding, more predominant than her fears."
preview | full record— Beckford, William (1760-1844)
Date: 1792
"Two minds in one, and each a truceless guest, / Rending the sphere of our distracted breast!"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1808
"'But when the Bard by Arun's stream / Indulg'd each sadly tender theme, / And with enchantment wild combin'd / The countless "shadowy tribes of mind;'"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)