Date: 1778, 1779
"I cannot write the scene that followed, though every word is engraven on my heart."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Yes, my child, thy happiness is engraved, in golden characters, upon the tablets of my heart! and their impression is indelible; for, should the rude and deep-searching hand of Misfortune attempt to pluck them from their repository, the fleeting fabric of life would give way, and in tearing from...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Do you think I was not grateful for his attention? yes, indeed, and every angry idea I had entertained, was totally obliterated."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"'Oh, Sir,' exclaimed I, 'that you could but read my heart!--that you could but see the filial tenderness and concern with which it overflows! you would not then talk thus,--you would not then banish me your presence, and exclude me from your affection!'"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1777, 1780
"[T]he name of Sir Philip Harclay shall be engraven upon my heart, next to my Lord and his family, for ever"
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: 1782
"You are much deceived; you have been reading your own mind, and thought you had read his."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Else would I tell you that more sacred than my life will I hold what I have heard, that the words just now graven on my heart, shall remain there to eternity unseen."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"[A]cquainted ere you meet that you were to meet him no more, your heart would be all softness and grief, and at the very moment when tenderness should be banished from your intercourse, it would bear down all opposition of judgment, spirit, and dignity: you would hang upon every word, because ev...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1783
"If the human mind be a rasa tabula,--you to whom it is entrusted, should be cautious what is written upon it."
preview | full record— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)
Date: 1788
"'Father of Mercies, compose this troubled spirit: do I indeed wish it to be composed---to forget my Henry?' the 'my', the pen was directly drawn across in an agony."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)