Date: 1723
"Covetousness we may truly call, The Dropsie of the Mind, it being an insatiable Thirst of Gain"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1723, 1725
Fancy may stoop "to court the Aid of Sense, / Unable to conceive such Excellence!"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: [1726]
"Review with the Mind’s Eye the various scenes of Life which this Day’s Progress has presented."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1732
"This fill'd her Mind with torturing Agonies; and her whole Soul bled for this Carlo's victim, whom there was now no way Wit could invent to rescue from the Danger."
preview | full record— Boyd, Elizabeth (fl. 1727-1745)
Date: 1736
"Ah! Princess, answered he, with a Sigh, you judge too favourably of this degenerate Race; their very Souls are debilitated with their Bodies; all Ardor for Glory, all generous Emulation, all Love of Liberty, every noble Passion is extinguish'd with their Industry."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1740
"How bruised and scarified! how deep the wound! / Senseless, of life no symptom to be found!"
preview | full record— Dixon, Sarah (1671/2-1765)
Date: 1741
"Says Body to Mind, ''Tis amazing to see, / We're so nearly related yet never agree, / But lead a most wrangling strange sort of life, / As great plagues to each other as husband and wife.'"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1741
"[F]ly for ever from my Sight, lest I stamp Deformity on every Limb, and make thy Body as hideous as thy Soul"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1744, 1753
"I look upon the difference between a Man who has a real Understanding, and one who has a little low Cunning, to be just as great as that between a Man who sees clearly, and one who is purblind"
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1744, 1753
"But the Mind's Eye (as Shakespear calls it) is not formed to take in many Ideas, no more than the Body's many Objects at once."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)