Date: 1744, 1753
"[F]or as his whole Mind was bent on one Point, and as the Knowledge of Characters relating to that Point was the grand Instrument of his Trade, he as mechanically acquired it as a Fisherman does the Knowledge of the proper Baits to catch the several Sorts of Fish."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1744, 1753
"Then a perplexed Heap of Notions crowded into his Mind, about Justice, Injustice, Prudence, Imprudence, Friendship, and Benevolence."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1748
"[B]ut now that I looked upon myself as a murderer, it is impossible to express the terrors of my imagination, which was incessantly haunted by the image of the deceased, and my bosom stung with the most exquisite agonies, of which I saw no end."
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1747-8
"Having lost her, my whole soul is a blank."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"[W]hen my mind is made such wax, as to be fit to take what impression she pleases to give it."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"Because a woman's heart may be at one time adamant, at another wax."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"Yet her charming body is not equally organized. The unequal partners pull two ways; and the divinity within her tears her silken frame."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1749
One may give and take "with a gust inexpressible, a kiss of welcome, that my heart rising to my lips, stamp'd with its warmest impression"
preview | full record— Cleland, John (bap. 1710, d. 1789)
Date: 1749
"The Remembrance of past Pleasures affects us with a kind of tender Grief, like what we suffer for departed Friends; and the Ideas of both may be said to haunt our Imaginations"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1749
"This Letter Lady Bellaston thought would certainly turn the Balance against Jones in the Mind of Sophia"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)