Date: 1725
"You shall not fly, Lorenzo, said Elvira, (whose Heart began to melt) you shall stay and be as happy as I can make you; Elvira shall keep her Promise, and do all you desire, as far as she has power; therefore call back all those wandring Thoughts, and fix them in my Breast for ever."
preview | full record— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)
Date: 1735
"He seemed therefore confident, that instead of Reason, we were only possessed of some Quality fitted to increase our natural Vices; as the Reflection from a troubled Stream returns the Image of an ill-shapen Body, not only larger, but more distorted."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1746, 1749
"For Peace and War succeed by Turns in Love, / And while tempestuous these Emotions roll, / And float with blind Disorder in the Soul."
preview | full record— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)
Date: 1733, 1748
Memory is a fountain of "endless joy"
preview | full record— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)
Date: 1753
Locke's "Logic Line the Depths of Reason found"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1753
Locke's "guiding Hand th'ideal Blank explores, / And opens wide the Senses' various Doors, / Thro' which the thronging Thoughts their Passage find, / In social Tribes, and stock the peopled Mind."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1756, 1766
"In the softest, sweetest voice, she expressed herself, and without the least appearance of labour, her ideas seemed to flow from a vast fountain"
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1756, 1766
"[W]e go down with the current of the passions, and let bent and humour determine us, in opposition to what is decent and fit"
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1756, 1766
"This is beyond the reach of our conception. Imagination cannot plumb her line so low."
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1757
"The tossing of the sea remains after the storm; and when this remain of horror has entirely subsided, all the passion, which the accident raised, subsides along with it; and the mind returns to its usual state of indifference"
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)