Date: 1782
"I was bewitched, I was infatuated! common sense was estranged by the seduction of a chimera; my understanding was in a ferment from the ebullition of my imagination!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Heavens! what a life of struggle between the head and the heart! how cruel, how unnatural a war between the intellects and the feelings!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"These thoughts, which confusedly, yet forcibly, rushed upon her mind, brought with them at once an excuse for his conduct, and an alarm for his danger."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Again her fancy roved, and Mr. Monckton took sole possession of it."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Is all over? no ray of reason left? no knowledge of thy wretched Delvile?"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Here tranquility once more made its abode the heart of Cecilia; that heart so long torn with anguish, suspense and horrour!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"But a smooth and stedfast mind, / Gentle thought and calm desires, / Hearts in equal love combin'd, / Kindle never-dying fires; / Where these are not I despise / Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes."
preview | full record— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)
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: 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)