Date: 1751
"I am here, thought I, like a poor condemned Criminal, who knows his Execution is fixed for such a Day, nay such an Hour, and dies over and over in Imagination, and by the Torture of his Mind, till that Hour comes"
preview | full record— Paltock, Robert (1697-1767)
Date: 1751
"In this corps he remained three years, during which, he had no opportunity of seeing actual service, except at the affair of Glensheel; and this life of insipid quiet, must have hung heavy upon a youth of M---'s active disposition, had not he found exercise for the mind, in'reading books of amus...
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
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
"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
"But so totally had the Affair of Miss Mathews possessed his Mind, that like a Man in a most raging Fit of the Gout, he was scarce capable of any additional Torture."
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Date: 1752
"And when this Conceit once had Birth in his Mind, several Circumstances nourished and improved it."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
"'For Heaven's sake,' cries Amelia, 'do not delay my Request any longer? What you say now greatly increases my Curiosity; and my Mind will be on the Rack till you discover your whole Meaning: for I am more and more convinced, that something of the utmost Importance was the Purport of your Messag...
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Date: 1752
"The first is, that a Mind once violently hurt grows, as it were, callous to any future Impressions of Grief; and is never capable of feeling the same Pangs a second Time."
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Date: 1752
The passions feed on the mind's delicacies
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Date: 1752
The mind may be diseased with a kind of ague fit
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