Date: 1766
One may suffer in the interior of his or her heart by the decease of another
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1766
"[A] little cunning is sufficient to enable us to take advantage of the discovery; for cunning attains its little ends more surely than wisdom; like the despicable mole which works its way through the greatest mountains, while the noble lion cannot penetrate one foot deep into the earth"
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1766
"Here Death his melancholy pomp displays, / And all his terrors strike on Fancy's eye: / To Fancy's ear each hollow gale conveys, / In chilling sounds, the last expiring sigh."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1766
"Mute is each Syren Passion's faithless song / Check'd and suspended by the solemn scene: / Mute the wild clamours of the giddy throng, / And only heard the "still small voice" within."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1769
"I refused, saying, that, as I was resolved he should in every point be the aggressor, he should fire first; he did, and missed me, and on my soul I believe designedly; for by the changes in his countenance, I could perceive that grief, and not anger, was then the predominant passion in his mind."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1769
One may banish from her heart a hopeless passion
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: October 10, 1769
"My imagination without wing or broom stick off mounts aloft, rises into ye Regions of pure space, and without lett or impediment bears me to your fireside, where you can set me in your easy chair, and we talk and reason, as angel Host and guest Aetherial should do, of high and important matters."
preview | full record— Montagu [née Robinson], Elizabeth (1718-1800)
Date: 1769
"Do you think it possible, Lucy, for a Frenchwoman to love? is not vanity the ruling passion of their hearts?"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
We may blush at past follies and indiscretions "when the empire of reason begins"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
"For my part, I think no politics worth attending to but those of the little commonwealth of woman: if I can maintain my empire over hearts, I leave the men to quarrel for every thing else."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)