Date: 1751
"For partly the Recommendation of his Person, but chiefly the Profusion of his Expences made her think him a very desireable Lover; and as she saw that his ruling Passion was Vanity, she was too good a Dissembler, and too much a Mistress of her Trade, not to flatter this Weakness for her own Ends."
preview | full record— Coventry, (William) Francis Walter (1725-1753/4)
Date: 1751
"She slept longer than usual the next Morning, and it seemed as if some golden Dream was pictured in her Fancy"
preview | full record— Coventry, (William) Francis Walter (1725-1753/4)
Date: 1751
"I proceeded therefore--That I loved Familiar-letter-writing, as I had more than once told her, above all the species of writing: It was writing from the heart (without the fetters prescribed by method or study) as the very word 'Cor-respondence' implied"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1751
"Nothing of body, when friend writes to friend; the mind impelling sovereignly the vassal-fingers."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1752
"The Spirit is active, and loves best to inhabit those Minds where it may meet with the most Work."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
"A thousand tender Ideas rushed all at once on my Mind."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
"I am going now, Madam, to relate to you one of those strange Accidents, which are produced by such a Train of Circumstances, that mere Chance hath been thought incapable of bringing them together; and which have therefore given Birth, in superstitious Minds, to Fortune, and to several other imag...
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
"So many tender Ideas crowded at once into my Mind, that, if I may use the Expression, they almost dissolved my Heart."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
"For Love, in the Minds of Men, hath one Quality at least of a Fever, which is to prefer Coldness in the Object. Confess, dear Will, is there not something vastly refreshing in the cool Air of a Prude."
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Date: 1752
"On the contrary, when all without looks dark and dismal, there is often a secret Ray of Light within the Mind , which turns every thing to real Joy and Gladness."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)