Date: 1797
"'Behold, what is woman!' said he--'The slave of her passions, the dupe of her senses! When pride and revenge speak in her breast, she defies obstacles, and laughs at crimes!'" "Assail but her senses; let music, for instance, touch some feeble chord of her heart, and echo to her fancy, and lo! al...
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1797
"The ruling passion of his nature once more resumed its authority, and he determined to earn the honour which the Marchesa had in store for him."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1797
"'I have been through life,' said the penitent, 'the slave of my passions, and they have led me into horrible excesses."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1797
"Though a lawless passion had first suggested to the dark mind of Schedoni the atrocious act, which should destroy a brother, many circumstances and considerations had conspired to urge him towards its accomplishment."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1800
"So the schemes / Rais'd by fond Hope in youth's unclouded morn, / While sanguine youth enjoys delusive dreams, / Experience withers; till scarce one remains / Flattering the languid heart, where only Reason reigns!"
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Date: 1807, 1810
Genius may give an actor "despotic empire o'er the heart"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1807, 1810
"Passions that now are but illusive deem'd, / Then shall their empire in thy heart attain"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1810
"Bid Rowe, bid Otway's magic softness rise, / Steal o'er his form, and languish in his eyes; / Melt in his voice, till Memory hints no more / The woes unreal; but, with forfeit power, / Resigns her empire o'er the yielding soul / To sighs and tears she ceases to controul."
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Date: 1810
"And, sexual pride subdued, at length disown / The Salique Law for Wit and Fancy's throne!"
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Date: 1814
"The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient--at others, so bewildered and so weak--and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond controul!"
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