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: 1785
"Yon starry orbs, / Majestic ocean, flowery vales, gay groves, / Eye-wasting lawns, and heaven-attempting hills / Which bound th' horizon, and which curb the view; / All those, with beauteous imagery, awaked / My ravished soul to ecstasy untaught, / To all the transport the rapt sense can bear; /...
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1786
"But your humanity must ever be engraved on my heart."
preview | full record— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)
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)
Date: 1788
"When Rochely got home, he set about examining the state of his heart exactly as he would have examined the check book of one of his customers."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"My Lord, my present concern is of a very different nature; and I do assure and protest to your Lordship that no time nor intreaties nor persuasion will erase and obliterate and wipe away from my mind, the injury and prejudice the parties have done me, by thus."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1789
"Ah! hide for ever from my sight / The faithless flatterer Hope--whose pencil, gay, / Portrays some vision of delight, / Then bids the fairy tablet fade away; / While in dire contrast, to mine eyes / Thy phantoms, yet more hideous, rise, / And Memory draws, from Pleasure's wither'd flower, / Corr...
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1790
"But her efforts to erase him from her remembrance were ineffectual."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)