Date: 1724, 1725
One may think herself "more happy in the Conquest of [a] Heart, than in that of the whole World"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1724, 1755
Rust may "fair endowments hide"
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1724, 1755
Unemployed wit stagnates like standing waters
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1724, 1755
The mind is a soil that must be cultivated; left fallow "an hateful crop succeeds"
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1724, 1755
Wit may be refined by reason to disengage metal from the mine [of the mind]
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1725
"Love's an heroick Passion, which can find No room in any base degen'rate Mind: It kindles all the Soul with Honour's Fire, To make the Lover worthy his Desire."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1725
One may, "tho' ever accounted the most roving and inconstant of his Sex," prefer the Conquest of one Heart to all the others he had made
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1724, 1725
"If you were in a Condition (said she merrily) I should be half in hope it was of your Heart I had made so great a Conquest"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1724, 1725
"[H]is Image was too deeply impress'd in her Mind, ever to banish it thence, tho' effac'd and blotted by the Memory of his Crimes"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)