Date: 1778, 1779
"Yet I will hope every thing from the unsullied whiteness of your soul, and the native liveliness of your disposition."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"My imagination changes the scene perpetually: at one moment, I am embraced by a kind and relenting parent, who takes me to that heart from which I have hitherto been benished, and supplicates, through me, peace and forgiveness from the ashes of my mother!--at another, he regards me with detestat...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"But I will not afflict you with the melancholy phantasms of my brain."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Never! O Miss Anville, how cruel, how piercing to my soul is that icy word!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Stung to the soul, I bid them have but a day's patience, and flung from them, in a state of mind too terrible for description."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"I would fain encourage more chearful thoughts, fain drive from my mind the melancholy that has taken possession of it."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"but it was not time, it was not the knowledge of his worth, obtained your regard; your new comrade had not patience to wait any trial; her glowing pencil, dipt in the vivid colours of her creative ideas, painted to you, at the moment of your first acquaintance, all the excellencies, all the good...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"'You know not what you ask,' cried he; 'the emotions which now rend my soul are more than my reason can endure: suffer me, then, to leave you,--impute it not to unkindness, but think of me as well as thou canst.'"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1779
"My mind's in equipoise, ready alike / To hold thee as my Lover, or my Foe!"
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"Those minds imbued by vice, with deepest stains, / Are often mask'd in forms almost divine-- / Deck'd forth in words, and looks, that Virtue's self / Might challenge for her own."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)