Date: 1696
"Nor did the bounteous Powers stop with these Graces; but gave also a Mind composed of Harmony: wise, as experienced Age; witty, as Youth, inspired with Poetry: and innocent, as harmless Childhood."
preview | full record— Pix, Mary (c.1666-1720)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
When "Interest and Inclination stand Candidates for Preference, we then trick with Virtue, and put the Cheat upon Honour; we impose upon our Understandings, and force our Judgments; nay more, we depose even Reason itself, and give Passions the Regency; and when our Minds are thus untun'd, our Act...
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
Our Minds may be "untun'd," so that "our Actions soon joyn in the same Discord; post-pone the Laws of the Gods, and make those of our Country ineffectual"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1713, 1719
"Thus I ran Divisions in my Fancy, which made but harsh Musick to my Interiour"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1736
"To these he added many other consolatory Expressions; and a handsome Repast being served in, entertain'd her all the time with such Discourses as entirely brought her back to those Principles from which the Delusions of Ochihatou had made her swerve; and, at the same time, establish'd so perfect...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1782
"I meant to have repeated the lesson, to have tuned your whole heart to compassion, and to have taught you the sad duties of sympathising humanity."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1788
"The caresses of an animal he had so long remembered, touched some chord of the heart that vibrated to softer emotions than those which had for the last three hours possessed him--he burst into tears."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"Emmeline would then have taken him; but she said no; and sitting down on the ground, held him in her lap, till Barret who had seen her from a window, came out and took him from her; to which, as to a thing usual, she consented, and then walked calmly home with Emmeline, who, extremely discompose...
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1790
"His mind resembled a finetoned instrument, whose extensive compass was capable of producing the most sublime and elevating sounds; but a fatal pressure relaxed the strings, and sunk its powerful harmony."
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1794
"'Yes,' said he, with an half-suppressed sigh, 'the memory of those we love--of times for ever past! in such an hour as this steals upon the mind, like a strain of distant music in the stillness of night;--all tender and harmonious as this landscape, sleeping in the mellow moon-light.'"
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)