Date: 1752, 1791
"Life's records rise on ev'ry side, / And Conscience spreads those volumes wide; / Which faithful registers were brought / By pale-ey'd Fear and busy Thought. / Those faults which artful men conceal, / Stand here engrav'd with pen of steel, / By Conscience, that impartial scribe!"
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1752
"'But you understand Human Nature to the Bottom,' answered Amelia;' and your Mind is a Treasury of all ancient and modern Learning.'"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
"I need not sign this Letter, otherwise than with that Impression of my Heart which I hope it bears"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: February 4, 1752
"My parents, though otherwise not great philosophers, knew the force of early education, and took care that the blank of my understanding should be filled with impressions of the value of money."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1753
"I teach true pleasures false ones to controul, / And warm the yielding heart, to stamp the mind"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: June 1753
"My hand, the secretary of my mind, / Leaves thee these lines upon the poplar's rind."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: w. April 25, 1737; 1753
"Gone, tho' she is, she left her soul behind, / In four dear transcripts of her copy'd mind."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1753
"Afflictions such as hers are prying, and lend those Eyes that read the Soul."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: [1753] 1754
"Despairing of success with you, he has assumed airs of bravery; but your name is written in large letters in his heart."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
"Look in my face; and, could my heart lie bare, / The Father would be seen engraven there"
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)