Date: Tuesday, August 7, 1750
"But the images which memory presents are of a stubborn and untractable nature, the objects of remembrance have already existed, and left their signature behind them impressed upon the mind, so as to defy all attempts of rasure or of change."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1750
"The Soul is a Tabula rasa, and gets all it knows thro' the Body; so there is no Law implanted in the Soul."
preview | full record— Bate, Julius (1711-1771)
Date: 1751
"Surely, says I, this ought to be engraven on Brass, as I wish it was on my Heart"
preview | full record— Paltock, Robert (1697-1767)
Date: 1751
The hand one writes may be "like her mind, solid and above all flourish"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: January 3, 1750-51, 1807
"Live then upon the paper, and upon my memory, every stroke of his pen! For there is no gall in his ink, but only precious balm, and honied drops of salutary counsel."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1751
An "indelible esteem" may be engraven on the heart
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1751
"I proceeded therefore--That I loved Familiar-letter-writing, as I had more than once told her, above all the species of writing: It was writing from the heart (without the fetters prescribed by method or study) as the very word 'Cor-respondence' implied"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1752, 1790
Apollo's "sacred fire" inspires the bard's breast, "Like the fair empty sheet he hangs to view, / Void, and unfurnish'd, till inspir'd by you."
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)
Date: 1752, 1790
"O let one beam, one kind inlightning ray / At once upon his mind and paper play!"
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)
Date: 1752, 1790
"The yielding paper's pure, but vacant breast, / By her fair hand and flowing pen imprest, / At ev'ry touch more animated grows."
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)