Date: 1788
"Such a crowd of thoughts all at once rushed into Mary's mind, that she in vain attempted to express the sentiments which were most predominant."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"Her heart longed to receive a new guest; there was a void in it: accustomed to have some one to love, she was alone, and comfortless, if not engrossed by a particular affection."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"Oh! reason, thou boasted guide, why desert me, like the world, when I most need thy assistance!"
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"she hoped that absence and reflection, together with the conviction of it's being hopeless, would conquer this infant passion before it could gather strength wholly to ruin his repose."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1789
"I bid the traitor Love, adieu! / Who to this fond, believing bosom came, / A guest insidious and untrue, / With Pity's soothing voice--in Friendship's name."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1790
"It was not in the rapid intricacies of execution, that she excelled so much as in that delicacy of taste, and in those enchanting powers of expression, which seem to breathe a soul through the sound, and which take captive the heart of the hearer."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1790
"Deadly ideas crowded upon their imaginations, and inspired a terror which scarcely allowed them to breathe."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1790
"The ideas of the distance which would separate them, of the dangers she was going to encounter, with a train of wild and fearful anticipations, crowded upon her mind, tears sprang in her eyes, and it was with difficulty she avoided betraying her emotions."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1790
"Her conscience whispered her that the dislike was mutual; and she now rejoiced in the opportunity which seemed to offer itself, of lowering the proud integrity of Madame's character."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1790
"Love comes to the bosom under the gentle forms of esteem, of sympathy, of confidence: we listen with dangerous pleasure to the seducing accents of his voice, till he lifts the fatal veil which concealed him from our view, and reigns a tyrant in the soul. Reason is then an oracle no longer consul...
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)