Date: 1783
"I weave nets for insects; and if I suit my toil, for my game am I to be derided?"
preview | full record— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)
Date: 1783
"Weeds in abundance spring up in a piece of ground which is neglected; -- so do naughty dispositions in an uncultivated mind."
preview | full record— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)
Date: 1784
"'Tis in Clarinda's charming mind, / The sweet attraction lies; / There all that fire and life we find, / That sparkles in her eyes."
preview | full record— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)
Date: 1784
"Till with care the garden of the mind."
preview | full record— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)
Date: 1784
"As a piece of ground which is negligently cultivated, produces abundance of noxious weeds, so in the soul of an indolent man over-run with numberless vicious passions."
preview | full record— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)
Date: 1785
"It is true, that I have the dear little babes of some particular friends more immediately in view; but my heart glows at the idea of smoothing the thorny paths of a thousand little innocents—of sparing the tears of helpless infants."
preview | full record— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)
Date: 1785
"Authority may place a child in the path of learning; but pleasure only can entice him on; let us therefor endeavour to strew the entrance with flowers, which may induce him to proceed with alacrity."
preview | full record— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)
Date: 1786
"Perhaps of my policy to, in confessing at once, what my wandering ideas, and disjointed style would soon have discover'd."
preview | full record— Lee, Harriet (1757/8-1851)
Date: 1786
"There was a time when my feelings gave the lie to their assertions; and holding the mirror of fancy before my eyes, shew'd me the future, in the happy present."
preview | full record— Lee, Harriet (1757/8-1851)
Date: 1788
"These propensities gave the colour to her mind, before the passions began to exercise their tyrannic sway, and particularly pointed out those which the soil would have a tendency to nurse."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)