Date: 1748
"But the Dean did not know what sort of a Memory I had, when he entrusted me with his Verse: I had no occasion for any other copy, than what I had registered in the Book and Volume of my Brain."
preview | full record— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)
Date: 1749
"The soul of man is originally a pure tabula rasa, capable of any impression either good or evil, and receives its bent from habits and education."
preview | full record— Anonymous [Old Sportsman]
Date: 1749
"Chloe, in this time, by proper Reflections, and a due Sense of Caelia's great Goodness and Affection to her, had so entirely got the better of herself in this Affair, that she found she could now, without any Uneasiness see them married; and calling Caelia to her, she said with a Smile, 'I have,...
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1748, 1749
"But as the structure of this organ is such, that when once the eye formed for vision has received the pictures of objects, the brain cannot help seeing their images and differences: in the same manner when the signs of these differences are marked or ingraved in the brain, the soul must necessar...
preview | full record— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)
Date: 1749
"With a diamond's point it [sin] stands / Engraven on my heart / Wrote by mine, and Satan's hands / It mocks the' eraser's art."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
"See Lord, the Object of thy Love, / And O come quickly from above, / The Blessing to impart, / Him to Thyself by Faith unite, / And in large bloody Letters write / Forgiveness on his Heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)
Date: 1749
Those who know the righteousness of faith may "lovingly obedient show / The law engraven on [their] hearts."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
Dirt or Rags cannot "hide this Something [in true Beauty] from those Souls which are not of the vulgar Stamp"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1749
"[L]et the Remembrance of what past at Upton blot me for ever from your Mind"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: April 1750, 1791
"Hail, wond'rous Being, who in pow'r supreme / Exists from everlasting, whose great Name / Deep in the human heart, and every atom, / The Air, the Earth or azure Main contains, / In undecypher'd characters is wrote."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)