Date: 1770-1
"The method that Mrs. Ruby-nose used to dismiss her anger, was to clap herself into an arm-chair with such a whang, that it shook the hot vapours from her brain, and sent them in a hurry down into a capacious store-room called her victualling-office."
preview | full record— Bridges, Thomas (b. 1710?, d. in or after 1775)
Date: 1770-1
"By this time the choleric vapours, which madam had jogged downwards when she let her broad bottom salute the chair with such a whack, growing warm amongst the hodg-potch they found in her store-room, which we may properly stile a hot-house, began to ascend, and take possession of their former te...
preview | full record— Bridges, Thomas (b. 1710?, d. in or after 1775)
Date: 1770-1
"This rather disconcerted his scheme, and set him a scratching, that being a kind of involuntary motion with him, whenever a train of ideas kept whirling in his brain with such velocity that he could not fix on any single one to stick by, and let the rest whirl out the way they came in."
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Date: 1771
"[T]he fumes of faction not only disturb the faculty of reason, but also pervert the organs of sense"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1771
What "absurd judgment we form, in viewing objects through the falsifying medium of prejudice and passion"
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Date: 1771
"My heart seemed to die within me when I entered this dismal bagnio, and sound my brain assaulted by such insufferable effluvia."
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1771
"I am inclined to think, no mind was ever wholly exempt from envy; which, perhaps, may have been implanted, as an instinct essential to our nature"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1771
"The selfish brutality of his behaviour on the stairs had steeled their hearts against all his arts and address"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1771
"O gracious! my poor Welsh brain has been spinning like a top ever since I came hither!"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1771
"He observed, that her ladyship's brain was a perfect mill for projects; and that she and Tabby had certainly engaged in some secret treaty, the nature of which he could not comprehend"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)