Date: 1785
"In thy mild rhetoric dwells a social love / Beyond my wild conceptions, optics false!/ Thro' which I falsely judg'd of polish'd life"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1785
"O, Montagu! forgive me, if I sing / red with the milder ray / Of soft humanity, and kindness bland: / So wide its influence, that the bright beams / Reach the low vale where mists of ignorance lodge, / Strike on the innate spark which lay immersed, / Thick-clogged, and almost quenched in total n...
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
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
"But your humanity must ever be engraved on my heart."
preview | full record— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)
Date: 1786
"Nay, with every other person 'tis the same thing--If we are stuffed into a coach, with a little chattering pert Miss, "Oh dear, Mr. Anthony Euston, you must not ride backwards, here is room for you on this seat--and Mr. Euston, I know, will like one seat as well as another"--and then am...
preview | full record— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)
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: 1786
"So o'er my soul short rays of reason fly, / Then fade:--and leave me, to despair and die!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1786
"Oh thou! to save whose peace I now depart, / Will thy soft mind, thy poor lost friend deplore, / When worms shall feed on this devoted heart, / Where even thy image shall be found no more / Yet may thy pity mingle not with pain, / For then thy hapless lover--dies in vain!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)