Date: 1769
Savages may regard "the Christian system of marriage as contrary to the laws of nature and reason"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
"If my ideas of things are right, the human mind is naturally virtuous; the business of education is therefore less to give us good impressions, which we have from nature, than to guard us against bad ones, which are generally acquired."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
"To the arts of the libertine, however fair, my heart had always been steeled."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
"The first moment I saw Colonel Rivers convinced me my heart had till then been a stranger to true tenderness"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
"Deprived by their extreme ignorance, and that indolence which nothing but their ardor for war can surmount, of all the conveniencies, as well as elegant refinements of polished life; strangers to the softer passions, love being with them on the same footing as amongst their fellow-tenants of the...
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
"That we are generally tyrannical, I am obliged to own; but such of us as know how to be happy, willingly give up the harsh title of master, for the more tender and endearing one of friend; men of sense abhor those customs which treat your sex as if created meerly for the happiness of the other; ...
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1773
"Fancy no more on airy wings shall rise, / We now must scold the maids, and make the pies."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1773
"My soul submits to wear her wonted yoke."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"But soon, alas! this holy calm is broke; / My soul submits to wear her wonted yoke; / With shackled pinions strives to soar in vain, / And mingles with the dross of earth again."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"Sighs are incense from a heart sincere"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)