Date: 1762
"He reverenced and respected her like a divinity, but hoped that prudence might enable him to conquer his passion, at the same time that it had not force enough to determine him to fly her presence, the only possible means of lessening the impression which every hour engraved more deeply on his h...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"Whatever glaring signs of Mr. Alworth's love appeared, she set them all down to the account of friendship; till at length his mind was so torn with grief and despair, that no longer able to conceal the cause of his greatest sufferings, he begged her to teach him how to conquer a passion, which, ...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"But she carefully concealed these new sensations, in hopes that he would more easily conquer his passion, for not thinking it returned."
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
One may see "Tears which would melt a heart even free to view, / How then must mine that's conquered bleed anew"
preview | full record— Jemmat [née Yeo], Catherine (bap. 1714, d. 1766?)
Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762
"[M]y guardian angel forsook me when she expired! her last injunctions are deep engraven on my heart!"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1762
"We might spend our time in going from place to place, where none wish to see us except they find a deficiency at the card table, perpetually living among those, whose vacant minds are ever seeking after pleasures foreign to their own tastes, and pursue joys which vanish as soon as possessed."
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762
"He perceived the additional impression which the brain of his uncle had sustained, from the happy manner in which the benevolence of Sir Launcelot had so lately operated"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1762
"never joy, / Save th' anxious sordid one to view his gold, / Could touch his marble heart"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1762
"He therefore had been little used to any woman but his sober and sensible grand-mother's two cousins who were pretty enough, but had no great charms of understanding; a sister rather silly, and the incomparable Harriot, whose wit was as sound as her judgment solid and sterling, free from affecta...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"Reason governed her thoughts and actions, nor could the greatest flow of spirits make her for a moment forget propriety."
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)