Date: 1790
The mind holds "each parted form," "like the after-echoing" of a storm
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Date: 1790
"His last words struck with the force of lightning upon the mind of Ferdinand; they seemed to say that his mother might yet exist."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1790
"Suspicion is like a mist, which renders the object it shades so uncertain, that the figure must be finished by imagination; and, when distrust takes the pencil, the strokes are generally so dark, that the disappointed heart sickens at the picture."
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1790
"Her mind was in a state of uncontroulable agitation; and, though music has power to sooth a gentle, or even a deep and settled melancholy, the torments of jealousy, the agonies of suspence, raise a tempest in the soul, which no harmony can lull to repose."
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1790
"Let those who possess the talents, or the virtues, by which he was distinguished, avoid similar wretchedness, by guarding their minds against the influence of passion; since, if it be once suffered to acquire an undue ascendency over reason, we shall in vain attempt to controul its power: we mig...
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: December 1790
"Ambition becomes only the tool of vanity, and his reason, the weather-cock of unrestrained feelings, is only employed to varnish over the faults which it ought to have corrected."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: December 1790
"These lively conjectures are the breezes that preserve the still lake from stagnating"
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Date: 1791
"The whirlwind wakes of uncontrouled desire"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1792
"The passions also, the winds of life, would be useless, if not injurious, did the substance which composes our thinking being, after we have thought in vain, only become the support of vegetable life, and invigorate a cabbage, or blush in a rose."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1792
"Like the lightning's flash are many recollections; one idea assimilating and explaining another, with astonishing rapidity."
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