Date: 1778, 1779
"Yet, Madam, so hard is it to root from the mind its favourite principles, or prejudices, call them which you please, that I lingered another week ere I had the resolution to send away a letter which I regarded as the death of my independence."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"'Hast thou so much heart?' cried he, with emotion, "and has fortune, though it has cursed thee with the temptation of prosperity, not yet rooted from thy mind its native benevolence?"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1783
"Weeds in abundance spring up in a piece of ground which is neglected; -- so do naughty dispositions in an uncultivated mind."
preview | full record— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)
Date: 1784
"Till with care the garden of the mind."
preview | full record— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)
Date: 1784
"As a piece of ground which is negligently cultivated, produces abundance of noxious weeds, so in the soul of an indolent man over-run with numberless vicious passions."
preview | full record— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)
Date: 1788
"These various movements of her mind were not commented on, nor were the luxuriant shoots restrained by culture."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"An extreme dislike took root in her mind; the sound of his name made her turn sick; but she forgot all, listening to Ann's cough, and supporting her languid frame."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"Her delicacy did not restrain her, for her dislike to her husband had taken root in her mind long before she knew Henry."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"Nothing was a stronger proof of the deep root which his passion had taken in his heart, than the influence Emmeline had obtained over his ungovernable and violent spirit, hitherto unused to controul, and accustomed from his infancy to exert over his own family the most boundless despotism."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"The seeds of jealousy and mistrust thus skillfully sown, could hardly fail of taking root in an heart so full of sensibility, and a temper so irritable as his."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)