Date: 1769
"Do not be alarmed for me; reason and the impossibility of success will conquer my passion for this angelic woman"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
"That this preference had, however, been salutary, though painful; since it had determined her to conquer a passion, which could only make her life wretched if it continued."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1778, 1779
"I was totally spiritless and dejected; the idea of the approaching meeting,--and oh Sir, the idea of the approaching parting,--gave a heaviness to my heart, that I could neither conquer nor repress."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Yet, Oh! how violent was the struggle which tore my conflicting soul, ere I could persuade myself to profit by the benevolence which you were so evidently disposed to exert in my favour!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"The very idea was a dagger to my heart!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1777, 1780
"He made but little reply; but the impression sunk deep into his rancorous heart; every word in Edmund's behalf was like a poisoned arrow that rankled in the wound, and grew every day more inflamed."
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: 1782
"But still she wished with the utmost ardour to know the length of their acquaintance, how often they had met, when they had conversed, what notice he had taken of her, and how so dangerous a preference had invaded her heart."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Did I suffer my eagerness to conquer my reason?"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Compared with the general lot of human misery, Cecilia had suffered nothing; but compared with the exaltation of ideal happiness, she had suffered much; willingly, however, would she again have borne all that had distressed her, experienced the same painful suspence, endured the same melancholy ...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"But fifteen summers had she bloomed, and her heart was an easy conquest; yet, once made mine, it resisted all allurement to infidelity."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)