Date: 1767
"I was now resolved to be myself an eye-witness of thy behaviour, and to try if there was any spark of virtue remaining in thy soul which could possibly be rekindled."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
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
"The fire caught--and the whole city, like the heart of one man, open'd itself to Love."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1776
"Would it were passed, and that like Aetna, though my bosom flamed, my head was crowned with snow."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)