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: 1720
"[L]et me imprint upon thy Mind, these my last Words that perhaps thou may'st ever hear from thy affectionate Father: "
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1759
"The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by destiny, not instilled by education, but infused at our nativity."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1766
"Their insensibility excited my highest compassion, and blotted my own uneasiness a while from my mind."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)