Date: 1751
The hand one writes may be "like her mind, solid and above all flourish"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1751
An "indelible esteem" may be engraven on the heart
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
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: 1752, 1790
Apollo's "sacred fire" inspires the bard's breast, "Like the fair empty sheet he hangs to view, / Void, and unfurnish'd, till inspir'd by you."
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)
Date: 1752, 1790
"O let one beam, one kind inlightning ray / At once upon his mind and paper play!"
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)
Date: 1752, 1790
"The yielding paper's pure, but vacant breast, / By her fair hand and flowing pen imprest, / At ev'ry touch more animated grows."
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)
Date: 1752
"Yet hold me near Thee; set me as a Seal, / Deep on thy dear dear Heart!"
preview | full record— Browne, Moses (1706-1787)
Date: 1752
"Go, Christian! with th' endearing Pledges seal'd / Fresh on thy Soul, resembling Pattern show/ How Jesus liv'd"
preview | full record— Browne, Moses (1706-1787)
Date: 1752, 1791
"Not all the volumes on thy shelf, / Are worth that single volume, Self."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
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)