Date: 1743
Reason "doth not foolishly say to us, be not glad, orbe not sorry, which would be as vain and idle, as to bid the purling River cease to run, or the raging Wind to blow"
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Date: 1748
"My bosom had been hitherto a stranger to such a flood of joy as now rushed upon it: My faculties were overborn by the tide"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1747-8
"[W]hen I heard her sentiments on two or three subjects, and took notice of that searching eye, darting into the very inmost cells of our frothy brains, by my faith, it made me look about me."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1749
"Indeed what Square had said sunk very deeply into his Mind, and the Uneasiness which it there created was very visible to the other"
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Date: 1749
"Now that Part of his Head which Nature designed for the Reservoir of Drink, being very shallow, a small Quantity of Liquor overflowed it, and opened the Sluices of his Heart; so that all the Secrets there deposited run out"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1750
"or, as a certain very eminent Author well observes, Fools having generally stronger Nerves, and less volatile Spirits, than Men of fine Understandings, that which will rouse the one, will make the other either stupid or frantick; and tho' it sometimes, while the Fit continues, strengthens the Im...
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1751
Venus "Bids the warm heart with friendship glow, / Or melt in pity's softer flow; / In chains our boasted reason bind, / And rule at will th'impassion'd mind."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1751
One may "pour forth the overflowings of his soul, and tell her that he neither could nor would survive her displeasure"
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Date: 1752
The passions of hatred and revenge boil in the mind
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
"So many tender Ideas crowded at once into my Mind, that, if I may use the Expression, they almost dissolved my Heart."
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