Date: 1760-7
"Though man is of all others the most curious vehicle, said my father, yet at the same time 'tis of so slight a frame and so totteringly put together, that the sudden jerks and hard jostlings it unavoidably meets with in this rugged journey, would overset and tear it to pieces a dozen times a day...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"However, I found their conversation more vulgar than I could have expected from personages of such distinction: if these, thought I to myself, be Princes, they are the most stupid Princes I have ever conversed with: yet still I continued to venerate their dress; for dress has a kind of mechanica...
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1766
"My dear Louisa, your watch and your passions keep pace; it wants some minutes of seven; but I cou'd wish from my heart, that almost any accident might prevent this meeting"
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)