Date: 1763
"He will by this means too escape the pernicious snares of flattery, the servile court of interested inferiors, and all the various mischiefs which poison the minds of young men bred up as heirs to great estates and titles."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1764
" Virtue he lack'd, cursed with those thoughts which spring / In souls of vulgar stamp"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1765
"My heart in groans its grief proclaims, / And melts, as wax before the flames"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)
Date: 1765
"And my heart, within me burning, / Is become like melting wax."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1765
"Reason in the bosom pours, / Its growth improves, its fruit matures, / Each counsel of the human brain / Weighs in his scale, and stamps it vain?"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)
Date: 1765
"Are your thoughts by Justice sway'd, / And in Reason's balance weigh'd?"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)
Date: 1766
One may suffer in the interior of his or her heart by the decease of another
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1766
"The word 'heavy', is more applicable to that, which loads the body; 'weighty', to that, which burdens the mind."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1766
"'Excursions' are necessary to persons, in a sedentary way of life, in order, to unbend the mind, and, exercise the body."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1766
"Considering these words, in a religious sense; that of 'fervency', seems to rise upon 'warmth'; 'warmth' implying, a flame of devotion, in opposition to coolness; 'fervency', great heat of mind, as opposed to coldness."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)