Date: 1753
"A Furnace rages in this Heart--I have been too hasty."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1754
"Souls of tinder, discretions of flimsy gauze, that conceal not their folly--One day they will think as I do; and perhaps before they have daughters who will convince them of the truth of my assertion"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1755
"The imperfect sense of some examples I lamented, but could not remedy, and hope they will be compensated by innumerable passages selected with propriety, and preserved with exactness; some shining with sparks of imagination, and some replete with treasures of wisdom."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1755
"Thy Words have shot like Lightning through my Frame; / And all my Soul's on Fire!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"Thy Soul will kindle, / And Passion mount in Flames that will consume thee."
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"Deep in his Soul the hidden Fire shall glow, / And his Breast labour with the great Revenge!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: March 1756
"The thought-kindling light, / Thy prime production, darts upon my mind / Its vivifying beams, my heart illumines, / And fills my soul with gratitude and Thee."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: June, 1756
"Glow, glow, my soul, with pure seraphic fire."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1757
"But when it is such a truth, as I do not only hear, but feel; and it comes home to my own very sense and experience: shall any sophistical reasonings wrangle me out of it; what though I cannot resolve the question, [GREEK CHARACTERS] whence the evil was derived: whether from the soul formed in t...
preview | full record— Jenks, Benjamin (bap. 1648, d. 1724)
Date: 1758, 1781
"Alas! All Souls are subject to like Fate, / All sympathizing with the Body's State; / Let the fierce Fever burn thro' ev'ry Vein, / And drive the madding Fury to the Brain, / Nought can the Fervour of his Frenzy cool, / But Aristotle's self's a Parish Fool!"
preview | full record— Hawkins, William (1721-1801)