Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
Pamela is apt to look upon sheepishness "as an outward Fence or Inclosure, as I may say, to his Virtue, which might keep off the lighter Attacks of Immorality, the Hussars of Vice, as I may say, who are not able to carry on a formal Siege against his Morals"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1742
A lady may be "tortured with Perplexity; opposite Passions distracting and tearing her Mind different ways"
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Date: 1742
"The same Mistakes may likewise be observed in Scarron, the Arabian Nights, the 'History of Marianne' and 'Le Paisan Parvenu', and perhaps some few other Writers of this Class, whom I have not read, or do not at present recollect; for I would by no means be thought to comprehend those great ...
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1743
Sleep may torment one's imagination "with Fantoms too dreadful to be described"
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