Date: 1788
"The same turn of mind which leads me to adore the Author of all Perfection--which leads me to conclude that he only can fill my soul; forces me to admire the faint image--the shadows of his attributes here below; and my imagination gives still bolder strokes to them."
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Date: 1788
"As she passed through the streets in an hackney-coach, disgust and horror alternately filled her mind."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"Whenever she did, or said, any thing she thought Henry would have approved of--she could not avoid thinking with anguish, of the rapture his approbation ever conveyed to her heart--a heart in which there was a void, that even benevolence and religion could not fill."
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Date: 1788
"The little she read, however, filled her heart with the most painful sensations and her eyes with tears."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"I continued it from habit, and because I knew not how to employ my time otherwise; but I felt a dreary vacuity in my heart; and amid splendor and admiration was unhappy."
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Date: 1788
"Tho' Godolphin had one of the best tempers in the world--a temper which the roughness of those among whom he lived had only served to soften and humanize, and which was immovable by the usual accidents that ruffle others, yet he had also in a great excess all those keen feelings, which fill a he...
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Date: 1788
"But in pouring her sorrows into the bosom of her friend she appeared to find great consolation."
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Date: 1794
"The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1797
"'If you are under any promise of secresy,' interrupted Vivaldi, 'I forbid you to tell this wonderful tale, which, however, seems somewhat too big to rest within your brain.'"
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Date: 1797
"Having said this, I am prepared to meet whatever suffering you shall inflict upon me; but be assured, that my own voice never shall sanction the evils to which I may be subjected, and that the immortal love of justice, which fills all my heart, will sustain my courage no less powerfully than the...
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