Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
We "suffer our selves to be blown and toss'd by our Passions, without casting Anchor on the Coast of sound Judgment, or steering to the Harbour of right Reason"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1786
"Nay, with every other person 'tis the same thing--If we are stuffed into a coach, with a little chattering pert Miss, "Oh dear, Mr. Anthony Euston, you must not ride backwards, here is room for you on this seat--and Mr. Euston, I know, will like one seat as well as another"--and then am...
preview | full record— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)