Date: 1790
"A new scene was now opening to her, which her young imagination painted in the warm and glowing colours of delight."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1790
"She seemed to have entered upon a new state of existence;--those fine springs of affection which had hitherto lain concealed, were now touched, and yielded to her a happiness more exalted than any her imagination had ever painted."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1790
"Fancy drew the scene;--she deepened the shades; and the terrific aspect of the objects she presented was heighted by the obscurity which involved them."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1790
"Fancy caught the thrilling sensation, and at her touch the towering steeps became shaded with unreal glooms; the caves more darkly frowned--the projecting cliffs assumed a more terrific aspect, and the wild overhanging shrubs waved to the gale in deeper murmurs."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1790
"Imagination only can paint the anguish of Julia's mind, when she saw herself thus delivered up to the power of her enemy."
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Date: 1790
"She lamented that Mr. Seymour's character, which appeared open, liberal, and elevated, should so ill bear a close inspection; and that his mind resembled one of those pictures which must be viewed by the dim light of a taper; since their coarse and glaring colours, which attract the eye in the d...
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1790
"Suspicion is like a mist, which renders the object it shades so uncertain, that the figure must be finished by imagination; and, when distrust takes the pencil, the strokes are generally so dark, that the disappointed heart sickens at the picture."
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Date: 1791
"Fancy paints with hues unreal,/ Smile of bliss, and sorrow's mood."
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Date: 1794
"As her imagination painted with melancholy touches, the deserted plains of Troy, such as they appeared in this after-day, she reanimated the landscape with the following little story."
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Date: 1794
"St. Aubert smiled, and sighed at the romantic picture of felicity his fancy drew; and sighed again to think, that nature and simplicity were so little known to the world, as that their pleasures were thought romantic."
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