Date: 1751
"Consult your glass; then prune your wanton mind, / Nor furnish laughter for succeeding time."
preview | full record— Leapor, Mary (1722-1746)
Date: 1751
"Oh had I known it sooner, engaged as I then was to one, who well deserved my love, could I have guessed miss Betsy Thoughtless was the contriver of that tender fraud, I know not what revolution might have happened in my heart! the empire you had there, was never totally extirpated, and kindness ...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1751
One may swell "with all the pride of flattered vanity" on a "new imaginary conquest over the heart" of an accomplished man
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1752
"Heroism, romantick Heroism, was rooted deeply in her Heart; it was her Habit of thinking, a Principle imbib'd from Education"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1755
"I remember upon my having a Fit of Illness, my Mother, who was apprehensive of my Death, and consequently, thro' excessive Fondness, us'd all Means to prevent it that lay within her Power, sent me to Thorly, in Hertfordshire, the Seat of Dr. Hales, an eminent Physician and Relation, with a Desig...
preview | full record— Charke [née Cibber; other married name Sacheverell], Charlotte [alias Mr Brown] (1713-1760)
Date: 1762
"An idle mind, like fallow ground, is the soil for every weed to grow in; in it vice strengthens, the seed of every vanity flourishes unmolested and luxuriant; discontent, malignity, ill humour, spread far and wide, and the mind becomes a chaos, which it is beyond human power to call into order a...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"Reflect, before the fatal Ax / My threatned Doom has wrought: / Nor sacrifice to sensual Taste / The nobler Growth of Thought."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1773
Souls may be ripened in "our northern sky"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"Human nature is ever liable to corruption, and has in it the seeds of every vice, as well as of every virtue; and the first will be continually shooting forth and growing up, if not carefully watched and rooted out as fast as they appear."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1773
Toil and danger "feed and ripen minds" (not "meats and drinks" or "balmy airs, and vernal suns and showers")
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)