Date: 1710
"But now, my Lord, I am coming to the melancholly Part of fair Agnes's Description, her Mind, 'twas all a Blot, nor had it ever been otherways; she had no Notion of Things, no Discourse, no Memory."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
A contrivance may raze "out all those Characters of Friendship and fraternal Love, which [...] virtuous and generous Behaviour" may engrave in the Heart
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1719
"I found it was not so easy to imprint right Notions in his Mind about the Devil, as it was about the Being of a God."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1720
"[L]et me imprint upon thy Mind, these my last Words that perhaps thou may'st ever hear from thy affectionate Father: "
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1722, 1725
"I got into an Arbor in the Garden, to peruse the dear Contents, which I very well remember, and are too deeply engraven in my Mind, ever to be forgotten."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1722, 1739
"The cruel Injuries you have lately done me, my dear Sebastian, are not sufficient to blot the Memory of you out of my tender Heart."
preview | full record— Aubin, Penelope (1679?-1731?)
Date: 1723, 1725
"AS Tapers languish at th' Approach of Day," and as the "Book of Fame" may be "Eraz'd and blotted," "So fully o'er the Soul may a lover's Influence reign, "That not one Rebel-Thought [its] Sway disdains"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1722, 1723
The "Laws of Honour" may be "printed by the Laws of Nature in the Breast of a Soldier, or a Man of Honour"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1724, 1725
"[H]is Image was too deeply impress'd in her Mind, ever to banish it thence, tho' effac'd and blotted by the Memory of his Crimes"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: [1726]
"Let what I have said be written in thy Heart, and keep it ever treasured in thy Mind."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)