Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"A most susceptible and tender Heart? -- Yes, you may feel it throb, it beats against my Breast, like an imprison'd Bird, and fain would burst it's Cage! to fly to you, the Aim of all its Wishes!"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"Nor was he less dissolv'd in Rapture, both their Souls seem'd to take Wing together, and left their Bodies motionless, as unworthy to bear a Part in their more elevated Bliss."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1723
Her Muse may "And with thy Spells driv'st Griefs away,
Which else wou'd make my Heart their Prey"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1759
"[S]he had no Food from outward Objects, to employ her animal Spirits, and they therefore prey'd at home; and oppressed her own Mind."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1759
The passions may "rebel against their proper Guide, and forcibly snatch the Reins out of the Hands of that Governor appointed to restrain and keep them within their own prescribed Bounds"
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1759
"This [her own Mind] being haunted with Ghosts, dejected with an unaccountable Melancholy, and afflicted with a Variety of Distempers, tho' we are at a Loss to discover what Appellation to give them, is very often the Result of nothing more than a strong Imagination unimployed, which could be all...
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1763
"If you now refuse, you have the heart of a tygress, and delight in the misery of others."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1766
"[A] little cunning is sufficient to enable us to take advantage of the discovery; for cunning attains its little ends more surely than wisdom; like the despicable mole which works its way through the greatest mountains, while the noble lion cannot penetrate one foot deep into the earth"
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Young, animated, entirely off your guard, and thoughtless of consequences, imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"His present situation, however, was little calculated to contribute to his recovery; the dismission of the surgeon, the precipitation of his removal, the inconveniencies of his lodgings, and the unseasonable deprivation of long customary indulgencies, were unavoidable delays of his amendment; wh...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)