Date: December 6, 1765

"Then fly from Shape to Shape, / Yet hope not to escape, / My Chains enclose your Heart."

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

Date: 1765

"By reason's standard, then, you judge amiss / Of those whose legislator is caprice."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1765

"I fancy that blanks would do still better, as some authors have lately used them, merely to make up bulk, and stuff life's volume."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1765

"She vile, she artful! thou art a monster but to think it. Her mind and person are as pure as mountain-snow, which the sun's beams have never glanced upon."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1766

"Ev'n this my friend, its well known image here / Remains engraven by the hand of love: / My beating heart confirms it for the same."

— Williams, Anna (1708-1783)

Date: 1766

"My Heart is my own / And a Stranger to Care"

— Carey, George Saville (1743-1807)

Date: 1766

"I must believe you, Emily; there is a charm in truth, that strikes upon the mind, like light upon our eyes"

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1766

"My dear Louisa, your watch and your passions keep pace; it wants some minutes of seven; but I cou'd wish from my heart, that almost any accident might prevent this meeting"

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1766

"Till now detain'd / In cruel bonds, his thoughts alone were free, / And these have never stray'd from his Constantia."

— Williams, Anna (1708-1783)

Date: 1767

"She hath buried my heart in sorrow, and engraven dishonour on the tomb of her ancestors"

— Hull, Thomas (1728-1808); Tuke, Sir Samuel (d. 1624)