Date: 1744, 1753
"Then a perplexed Heap of Notions crowded into his Mind, about Justice, Injustice, Prudence, Imprudence, Friendship, and Benevolence."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1748
"[B]ut now that I looked upon myself as a murderer, it is impossible to express the terrors of my imagination, which was incessantly haunted by the image of the deceased, and my bosom stung with the most exquisite agonies, of which I saw no end."
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1747-8
"Having lost her, my whole soul is a blank."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"[W]hen my mind is made such wax, as to be fit to take what impression she pleases to give it."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"Because a woman's heart may be at one time adamant, at another wax."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"Yet her charming body is not equally organized. The unequal partners pull two ways; and the divinity within her tears her silken frame."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1749
One may give and take "with a gust inexpressible, a kiss of welcome, that my heart rising to my lips, stamp'd with its warmest impression"
preview | full record— Cleland, John (bap. 1710, d. 1789)
Date: 1749
"The Remembrance of past Pleasures affects us with a kind of tender Grief, like what we suffer for departed Friends; and the Ideas of both may be said to haunt our Imaginations"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1749
"This Letter Lady Bellaston thought would certainly turn the Balance against Jones in the Mind of Sophia"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1749
We may "consider a Book as the Author's Offspring, and indeed as the Child of his Brain"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)