Date: 1793
"Her mind was a kind of circulating library in little, and I sincerely wish romances were always attended with the same good effects they produced in her; for there is scarcely a good moral inculcated by them that she did not act up to."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1794
"The slightest breath of dishonour would have stung him to the very soul"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: w. 1766, 1796
"Little minds / Do judge of great things, like the purblind gnat, / That deems a fly, a monster"
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: February 2, 1796
"Her head's like the island, folks tell on, / Which nothing but monkies can dwell on"
preview | full record— Hoare, Prince (1755-1834)
Date: 1796
"Discordant tho' the ideas be, / In Fancy's logic they agree; / As in the Ark by special grace, / Mice liv'd with Cats, yet throve apace."
preview | full record— Courtenay, John Lees (1775?-1794)
Date: 1796
"The trial is dangerous; he is just at that period of life when the passions are most vigorous, unbridled, and despotic."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"No longer sustained by the violence of his passions, he feels all the monotony of his way of living, and his heart becomes the prey of ennui and weariness."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"You know not the power of those irresistible, those fatal sentiments to which her heart was a prey."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"I should love you, I should doat on you! my bosom would become the prey of desires, which honour and my profession forbid me to gratify."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"The woman reigns in my bosom, and I am become a prey to the wildest of passions."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)