Date: 1766
"In 'love', it is the heart, which, principally, tastes the pleasure; the mind, making itself a slave, without any regard; and, the satisfaction of the senses, contributing less to the sweet enjoyment, than a certain contentedness of soul, which produces the charming idea, of being in the posses...
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1766, 1808
"Nature, my friend, profuse in vain, / May every gift impart; / If unimprov'd, they ne'er can gain / An empire o'er the heart."
preview | full record— Anstey, Christopher (1724-1805)
Date: 1767, 1784
"But if foul Passion, or distemper'd Pride, / Impede its search, or Phrenzy seize the brain, / Then Ignorance a gloomy darkness spreads, / Or Superstition, with mishapen forms, / Erects its savage empire in the mind."
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1767, 1784
"This principle / In female minds a feebler empire holds, / Opposing less the specious arguments / For milder rule, and freedom's popular theme."
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1774
"I expect the incomparable fair one of Hamburg, that prodigy of beauty, and paragon of good sense, who has enslaved your mind, and inflamed your heart."
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: 1774
"Please the eyes and the ears, they will introduce you to the heart; and nine times in ten, the heart governs the understanding."
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: 1774
"It is a very old and very true maxim, that those kings reign the most secure and the most absolute, who reign in the hearts of their people."
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: 1774
"Vanity is unquestionably the ruling passion in women; and it is much flattered by the attentions of a man who is generally esteemed by men; when his merit has received the stamp of their approbation, women make it current, that is to say, put him in fashion."
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: 1777, 1793
"Light sits my bosom's Master on his throne; / Airy and disencumber'd feels my Soul."
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: w. c. 1779
"[T]hen prudence took her Seat / Within the Soul, and reign'd in Virtue's room."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)