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Date: 1766
"We talked of the pleasures of temperance, and of the sun-shine in the mind unpolluted with guilt."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1766
"The tumult in her mind seemed not yet abated; she said twenty giddy things that looked like joy, and then laughed out loud at her own want of meaning."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1766
"I found all my passions alarmed at this new degrading proposal; for though the mind may often be calm under great injuries, little villainy can at any time get within the soul, and sting it into rage."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1766
"To stamp Fraternity on gen'rous hearts: [...] Celestial Charity to-night descends"
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1766
"Fancy leads the fetter'd senses / Captives to her fond controul; / Merit may have rich pretences, / But 'tis Fancy fires the soul."
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1763, 1767
"The guardian genius of his dawning thought, / Who wide disclos'd to wisdom's sacred ray / The eager inlets of his ample mind, / And pour'd upon each opening mental cell, / The virtue-forming scientific beam / With letter'd and religious radiance fill'd, / The fair expanses of his princely soul, ...
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1768
"My heart smote me the moment he shut the door."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1768
"I should as soon think of making a genteel suit of cloaths out of remnants:--and to do it--pop--at first sight by declaration--is submitting the offer and themselves with it, to be sifted, with all their pours and contres, by an unheated mind."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1768
"In saying this, I was making not so much La Fleur's eloge, as my own, having been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1768
"With reason, said I; for if it is a good one, 'tis pity it should be stolen: 'tis a little treasure to thee, and gives a better air to your face, than if it was dress'd out with pearls."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)