Date: 1777, 1780
"Afterwards he walked into the garden, revolving in his mind the peculiarity of his situation, and the uncertainty of his future prospects; lost in thought, he walked to and fro in a covered walk, with his arms crossed and his eyes cast down, without perceiving that he was observed by two females...
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: 1777, 1780
"As soon as they were ready, my Lord wished him a good journey, and gave him a letter for his mother. He departed without saying a word, in a sullen kind of resentment, but his countenance shewed the inward agitations of his mind."
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: 1777, 1780
"I buried my resentment deep in my heart, and outwardly appeared to rejoice at his success; I made a merit of resigning my pretensions to him, but I could not bear to be present at his nuptials."
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: 1777, 1780
"It is easy for men in your situation to advise, but it is difficult for one in mine to practise; wounded in body and mind, it is natural that I should strive to avoid the extremes of shame and punishment."
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: 1777, 1780
"He asked an audience of his fair Mistress, and was permitted to declare the passion he had so long stifled in his own bosom."
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: 1782
"What Addison has said of the Ways of Heaven, may with much more propriety & accuracy be applied to the the 'Mind of Man which indeed, is Dark & Intricate, Filled with wild Mazes, & perplexed with Error.''"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"He knew that the acquaintance of Cecilia was confined to a circle of which he was himself the principal ornament, that she had rejected all the proposals of marriage which had hitherto been made to her, and, as he had sedulously watched her from her earliest years, he had reason to believe that ...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"She returned, however, neither satisfied with the behaviour of her friend, nor pleased with her own situation: the sobriety of her education, as it had early instilled into her mind the pure dictates of religion, and strict principles of honour, had also taught her to regard continual dissipatio...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"A strong sense of DUTY, a fervent desire to ACT RIGHT, were the ruling characteristics of her mind: her affluence she therefore considered as a debt contracted with the poor, and her independence, as a tie upon her liberality to pay it with interest."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Cecilia, too much astonished for speech, stood for some time immoveable, revolving in her mind various conjectures upon the meaning of an exhortation so strange and so urgent."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)