Date: 1782
"Her heart, deeply wounded of late by unexpected indifference, and undeserved mortification, was now, perhaps, more than usually susceptible of those penetrating and exquisite pleasures which friendship and kindness possess the highest powers of bestowing."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"The revival of this early connection delighted them both, it was balm to the wounded mind of Cecilia, it was renovation to the existence of Mrs. Charlton."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"The journey was melancholy and tedious: Mrs. Charlton, extremely fatigued by the unusual hurry and exercise both of mind and body which she had lately gone through, was obliged to travel very slowly, and to lie upon the road."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Yet disdain not to reflect that every instant will seem endless, while Cecilia must appear to me unjust, or wound my very soul by the recollection of her in sorrow."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1788
"She knew none of the inhabitants of the vast city to which she was going: the mass of buildings appeared to her a huge body without an informing soul."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"First, by bringing up his son in a manner that had given such boundless scope to his passions; and now, by refusing to gratify him in marrying a young woman, who was, in the eye of unprejudiced reason, so perfectly unexceptionable."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"She figured to herself the decided phrenzy, or the death of her poor friend; and unable to conquer apprehensions which she was yet compelled to conceal, she lived in a continual effort to appear chearful, and to soothe the wounded mind of the sufferer, by consolatory conversation."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"Well, Sir, I hope that Miss Mowbray and myself have prevailed on you to drop at present every other design than the truly generous one of healing the wounded heart of our fair unfortunate friend."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"If she has, as I have sometimes dared to hope, some friendship and esteem for the less fortunate Godolphin, why should I wound a heart so full of sensibility by relating the conflicts of my soul and the passion I have vainly indulged?"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"She knew not (for Mrs Stafford and Emmeline were themselves ignorant) of the artful misrepresentations with which the Crofts' had poisoned the mind of her brother; and was therefore astonished at his suspicions and grieved at his rashness."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)