Date: 1778, 1779
"As soon would I discuss the effect of sound with the deaf, or the nature of colours with the blind, as aim at illuminating with conviction a mind so warped by prejudice, so much the slave of unruly and illiberal passions."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Once, indeed, I thought there existed another,--who, when time had wintered o'er his locks, would have shone forth among his fellow-creatures, with the same brightness of worth which dignifies my honoured Mr. Villars; a brightness, how superior in value to that which results from mere quickness ...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1779
"His mind / Knowledge illumines, and bright Virtue loves."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"Darting like hidden sun-beams on my mind, / And make it drunk with bliss."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1780
"This duty paid, a dawn, like that of peace, / By soft degrees illum'd the mourner's mind."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1777, 1780
"While he prayed, he felt an enlargement of heart beyond what he had ever experienced before; all idle fears were dispersed, and his heart glowed with divine love and affiance: He seemed raised above the world and all its pursuits."
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: 1782
"What Addison has said of the Ways of Heaven, may with much more propriety & accuracy be applied to the the 'Mind of Man which indeed, is Dark & Intricate, Filled with wild Mazes, & perplexed with Error.''"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Is all over? no ray of reason left? no knowledge of thy wretched Delvile?"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Why drive him from my presence? he might now / Raise my sunk soul, and my benighted mind / Enlighten with religion's cheering ray."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1782
"Proceed, proceed, thrice venerable sage! / Enlighten my dark mind with this new ray, / This dawning of salvation!"
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)