Date: 1744, 1753
"Then a perplexed Heap of Notions crowded into his Mind, about Justice, Injustice, Prudence, Imprudence, Friendship, and Benevolence."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1747
"Tho' her bright Image, in his Breast he bears, / And all her Beauties in his Form appears; / Tho' in his Soul she lights her heav'nly Flame, / And finds even here a Votary in him."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1746; December 17, 1747 [actually January, 1748]
"The Passions ceas’d their loud alarms, / And Virtue’s soft persuasive charms / O’er all their senses stole."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1733, 1748
"Where thou [Memory] art not, the cheerless human mind / Is one vast void, all darksome, sad, and blind; / No trace of anything remains behind."
preview | full record— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)
Date: 1752
"[T]he Sight of me will cause so many tumultuous Motions in the Soul of his Patient"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1752
One may contemplate "the sudden Change" and "divine Image" which is engraven in the heart
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1752
"The Countess's Discourse had raised a Kind of Tumult in her Thoughts, which gave an Air of Perplexity to her lovely Face"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1753
"We often see that to reverse this boasted constancy is the work of but a single minute,--and then in vain their past professions recoil upon their minds;--in vain the idea of the forsaken fair haunts them in nightly visions."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: January 28, 1753
"I have heard that his understanding was rather hurt by the absolute retirement in which he lived, and indeed he had an imagination too lively to be trusted to itself; the treasures of it were inexhaustible, but for want of commerce with mankind he made that rich oar into bright but useless medal...
preview | full record— Montagu [née Robinson], Elizabeth (1718-1800)
Date: 1754
One may spend their "life continually haunted with ghosts," formed by one's "own capricious imagination" enemies may be cherished in one's bosom
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)