Date: 1792
"This habitual slavery, to first impressions, has a more baneful effect on the female than the male character, because business and other dry employments of the understanding, tend to deaden the feelings and break associations that do violence to reason."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1791, 1792
"For thou to me canst sov'reign bliss impart, / Thy mind my empire--and my throne thy heart."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1793, 1806
"Truth can derive no eminence from birth, / Rich in the proud supremacy of worth; / Its blest dominion vast and unconfin'd, / Its crown eternal, and its throne the mind!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1794
"Yet, though the thought of dismissing Valancourt was so very painful to her, that she could scarcely endure to pause upon it, the consciousness of this made her fear the partiality of her judgment, and hesitate still more to encourage that suit, for which her own heart too tenderly pleaded."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"The love of sway was her ruling passion, and she knew it would be highly gratified by taking into her house a young orphan, who had no appeal from her decisions, and on whom she could exercise without controul the capricious humour of the moment."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"Emily's mind was even so much engaged with new and wonderful images, that they sometimes banished the idea of Valancourt, though they more frequently revived it."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"Verezzi was a man of some talent, of fiery imagination, and the slave of alternate passions."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"Thus circumstanced, she tried to banish reflection, but her busy fancy would still hover over the subjects of her interest, and she heard the clock of the castle strike two, before she closed her eyes."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
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: 1795
In "the serious and reflective mind, love raises a despotic throne, and, like the burning sun of Africa, he pours his chiefest ardors upon slaves"
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)