Date: 1700
"What does the World think of this holding up the Buckler, they put but a bad Construction upon it, and say that his Conscience is Ulcerated, that you cannot touch any String, but it will answer to some painful place."
preview | full record— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)
Date: 1722
"I had now such a Load on my Mind that it kept me perpetually waking."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1724
"This was a dreadful Blow to me; tho' I cannot say I was so surpriz'd as I should otherwise have been; for all the while he was gone, my Mind was oppress'd with the Weight of my own Thoughts; and I was as sure that I should never see him any more, that I think nothing could be like it; the Impres...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)