Date: 1761
"This was the master-key to her behaviour, and once I had got it, which I soon did, it was easy to unlock her breast."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"I have been a slave to a hopeless passion too long; I am now resolved to struggle with my chains: you, Madam, must assist me in breaking them intirely; and I make no doubt but that time, joined to my own efforts, and aided by your sweetness of disposition, your tenderness, and admirable sense, w...
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1763
"And short-liv'd o'er the heart is passion's reign"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1763
"Till judgement stamp her sanction on the whole, / And sink th'impression deep into the soul.--"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1763
"But fancy's pictures float upon the brain."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1764
"Dead Letters, thus with Living Notions fraught, / Prove to the Soul the Telescopes of Thought"
preview | full record— Grierson [née Crawley], Constantia (1704/5-1732)
Date: 1765
"By reason's standard, then, you judge amiss / Of those whose legislator is caprice."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1765
"I fancy that blanks would do still better, as some authors have lately used them, merely to make up bulk, and stuff life's volume."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1765
"She vile, she artful! thou art a monster but to think it. Her mind and person are as pure as mountain-snow, which the sun's beams have never glanced upon."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1766
"I must believe you, Emily; there is a charm in truth, that strikes upon the mind, like light upon our eyes"
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)