Date: 1761
"If the unfortunate Mr. Arnold sees his error, can you be so unchristian as to endeavour at steeling his wife's heart against him?"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"This was the master-key to her behaviour, and once I had got it, which I soon did, it was easy to unlock her breast."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"I have been a slave to a hopeless passion too long; I am now resolved to struggle with my chains: you, Madam, must assist me in breaking them intirely; and I make no doubt but that time, joined to my own efforts, and aided by your sweetness of disposition, your tenderness, and admirable sense, w...
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1764
"Shall the winged Inhabitants of Air come tamely to the Hand that feeds them; and shall Man steel his Heart against all Impressions of Kindness, and all Sentiments of GRATITUDE?"
preview | full record— Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784)
Date: 1764
"In the Eye of Reason the Prostitution of the Mind, which certainly leads to it, is little less offensive than the Prostitution of the Person."
preview | full record— Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
The "Action and Reaction" of different Estates "produces that general and systematic Controul which, like Conscience, pervades and superintends the Whole, checking and prohibiting Evil from every Part of the Constitution"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
A beloved may be a "Regent within" and "sit throned in [a lover's] Heart"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
An affection may get "an habitual Empire in the Mind"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
There are men as variable as the wind, whose present temper it is as easy to decipher as it is to consult a weather cock
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
"Edward could only win your Cities, but Philippa conquers Hearts"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)