Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

The Fatal Secret: or, Constancy in Distress.

London

1724, 1725

"The old Marquis, whose lawless and ungoverned Passion had occasion'd this Misfortune, still remained in a fixed Posture."

The old Marquis, whose lawless and ungoverned Passion had occasion'd this Misfortune, still remained in a fixed Posture; but if we may guess by what ensued, felt at least an equal Share in those Agonies which so visibly possessed the Count. ----Rouzing at length from his seeming Lethargy, he assumed as much as possible a Serenity of Countenance, and ordering his Son to attend him in his Chamber in half an Hour, left that dismal Scene to be filled up by him whose Griefs were too just for Controul. ---- The Woman of the House would fain have perswaded him from the Body; but he swore never to forsake it, but so long as to know the Cause of so shocking a Despair as that must be, which had influenced her gentle Soul to such an Act of Horror.
(pp. 253-4)

Government::Lawless

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At least 4 entries in the ESTC (1724, 1725, 1732, 1742).

See The Fatal Secret: or, Constancy in Distress. By the Author of the Masqueraders, or Fatal Curiosity. 2nd ed. (London: Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1724). <Link to ESTC>

Text from Secret Histories, Novels and Poems. In Four Volumes. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood. (London: Printed [partly by Samuel Aris] for Dan. Browne, jun. at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar ; and S. Chapman, at the Angel in Pall-Mall, 1725). <Link to ESTC>

04/25/2005