Date: 1769
"What gratitude do we not owe to heaven! may the sense of it be for ever engraven on our hearts!"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1770
"Mr. Falkland began with beseeching lord V--- to blot from his memory his past ill conduct, for which he expressed the sincerest contrition"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1773
One may blot from his mind "the idea of future retribution"
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1773
"I blot from my memory every other woman; those every-day beauties (as Terence calls them) who have nothing but their sex to recommend them."
preview | full record— Graves, Richard (1715-1804)
Date: 1773
"The figure of his father venerable in virtue, of his sister lovely in innocence, were imprinted on his mind; and the variety of public places of entertainment, to which sir Thomas conducted him, could not immediately efface the impression."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1774, rev. 1787, 1779 in English
"But I had found it: I did find and know an exalted mind, which raised me beyond myself, and made me all that I am capable of being. All the powers of my soul were extended, and the deep sentiment which nature engraved on my heart, was unfolded."
preview | full record— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832)
Date: 1776
"We all help to engrave our misfortunes on our hearts, by bearing them constantly in mind, and recurring back to them daily, as if we were incapable of turning our thoughts to any other subject."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"No words will ever be able to express my feelings, nor no time to erase them from my heart."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"She has not yet recovered the vivacity she possessed before her attachment to Captain Williams; but time, they say, can conquer every thing, and will, I trust, erase the memory of that disagreeable event from her mind."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"I needed not to read it, the words were but too deeply engraved upon my heart."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)