Date: 1710
"The Two Principal Qualifications of a Phanatick Preacher are, his Inward Light, and his Head full of Maggots."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1710
"He was confirm'd in his Conjecture, when he heard the beautiful Virgin (after having by a Pressure of her Hand to her Breast, re-seated that lovely Heart in its native Throne) caress and embrace the melancholly Beauty whom he found to be Solitude, who then lifted up her languishing...
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1710
Charms may be sufficient of themselves to gain a Conquest over any Heart that is not already ingaged
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1710
A bishop may indulge "amorous Vein" and make "as many Conquests over the Bodies of the fair Sex, as of their Souls"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1710
"But now, my Lord, I am coming to the melancholly Part of fair Agnes's Description, her Mind, 'twas all a Blot, nor had it ever been otherways; she had no Notion of Things, no Discourse, no Memory."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1710
"In that Particular I was sure my fair Agnes was exceeded by none; her Charms were faultless and peculiar, but her Mind was a Rock upon which my Resolution struck."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1712 [1706-1721]
"Sir, said the young man, for God’s sake do not stop me, let me go, I cannot without horror look upon that abominable barber; though he is born in a country where all the natives are whites, he resembles an Ethiopian; and when all is come to all, his soul is yet blacker and yet more horrible than...
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Date: 1712, 1721 [1706-21]
"After the princess had passed by Aladdin, and got into the baths, he remained some time astonished and confounded, and in a kind of extacy, in reflecting and imprinting the idea of so charming an object deeply in his mind."
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Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
A "Ladyship's Virtue and Prudence" may gain "absolute an Empire over the Hearts of the World."
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
When a young Lady rallies or banters a young Gentleman it may be counted as "an Invitation to Courtship, or a transparent Mask, thro' which they see she has a Mind to be marry'd"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)