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Date: 1747-8
"Yet her charming body is not equally organized. The unequal partners pull two ways; and the divinity within her tears her silken frame."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1751
"This Speech, I own, gave me the first Reflection I ever had in my Life, and lock'd up all my Faculties for a long Time; nor was I able, for the Variety of Ideas that crowded my Brain, to make a Word of Answer, but stood like an Image of Stone"
preview | full record— Paltock, Robert (1697-1767)
Date: 1773
"Zounds! Sir, can you give any relief to a soul that is haunted by Furies?"
preview | full record— Graves, Richard (1715-1804)