Date: February 22, 1723
"Sir, let her crime / Erase the faithful characters, which love / Imprinted on your heart."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1726
"How the weak Mind a naked Blank, receives, / The first Impression Time, or Custom gives."
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1731
"Cruelly kind, press inward, on my Heart; / But fright not Reason, cling not to my Thought, / Blot, blot Remembrance out, strike Home, at Life, / Pour, all at once, Oblivion on my Soul, / And quench me, into Quiet."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1737
"[B]ut shall Quirps and Sentences, and those Paper-Bullets of the Brain frighten a Man from his Humour?"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1706-1744); Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Date: 1739
"Yes, Speech is Animi Index, & Speculum; 'tis the Interpreter of the Heart, 'tis the Image of the Soul."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)
Date: 1739
"These are the very Words which Grief, Madam, has engrav'd in the bottom of my Heart"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)
Date: 1753
"Afflictions such as hers are prying, and lend those Eyes that read the Soul."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1755
"When Love's once united, no Tyrant shall part / Nor can time efface what is grav'd on my heart."
preview | full record— Mendez, Moses (1690 - c.1758)
Date: 1755
"Why did I not / Repent, while yet my Crimes were decibel! / Ere they had struck their Colours thro' my Soul, / As black as Night or Hell!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1761
"But now proceed; / Give me more names; these many I have wrote / Deep in the vengeful tablets of my heart."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)