Date: 1790
"Still through the deep'ning gloom of bow'ry shades / To Fancy's eye fantastic forms appear"
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1791
"Lady Castlenorth was laying up a little magazine of literature, which she intended to open on Willoughby the next day; and her daughter was contemplating in her mind's eye, the handsome person of Willoughby, the figure they should make at Court, and the triumph there would be, when without degra...
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Date: 1794
"But the latter was too deeply wounded, through the medium of her mind, to be quickly revived."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"In the eye of fancy, she perceived the gleam of arms through the duskiness of night, the glitter of spears and helmets, and the banners floating dimly on the twilight; while now and then the blast of a distant trumpet echoed along the defile, and the signal was answered by a momentary clash of a...
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Date: 1794
"Her first care was to guard the door of the stair-case, for which purpose she placed against it all the furniture she could move, and she was thus employed, for some time, at the end of which she had another instance how much more oppressive misfortune is to the idle, than to the busy; for, havi...
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Date: 1794
"A superstitious dread stole over her; she stood listening, for some moments, in trembling expectation, and then endeavoured to recollect her thoughts, and to reason herself into composure; but human reason cannot establish her laws on subjects, lost in the obscurity of imagination, any more than...
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1796
"The mind of a young woman lady should be clear and unsullied, like a sheet of white paper, or her own fairer face"
preview | full record— Hays, Mary (1760-1843)
Date: 1797
"But he had neither power or inclination to explain a circumstance, which must deeply wound the heart of Ellena, since it would have told that the same event, which excited her grief, had accidentally inspired his joy."
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Date: 1797
"In the eagerness of conversation, and, yielding to the satisfaction which the mind receives from exercising ideas that have long slept in dusky indolence, and to the pleasure of admitting new ones, the Abbot and a few of the brothers sat with Vivaldi to a late hour."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1814
"They have injured the finest mind!--for sometimes, Fanny, I own to you, it does appear more than manner; it appears as if the mind itself was tainted."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)