Date: 1791, 1794
"His visit was not long, but before he went he fixed a scorpion in the heart of Charlotte, whose venom embittered every future hour of her life."
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)
Date: 1792
"Yet disappointed as we are, in our researches, the mind gains strength by the exercise, sufficient, perhaps, to comprehend the answers which, in another step of existence, it may receive to the anxious questions it asked, when the understanding with feeble wing was fluttering round the visible e...
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1792
"If I, he may thus argue, who exercise my own mind, and have been refined by tribulation, find the serpent's egg in some fold of my heart, and crush it with difficulty, shall I not pity those who have stamped with less vigour, or who have heedlessly nurtured the insidious reptile till it poisoned...
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1794
"This was soon chased away by Emily's smile, who smiled, however, with an aching heart, for she saw that his misfortunes preyed upon his mind, and upon his enfeebled frame."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"She endeavoured to withdraw her thoughts from the anxiety, that preyed upon them, but they refused controul; she could neither read, or draw, and the tones of her lute were so utterly discordant with the present state of her feelings, that she could not endure them for a moment."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1795
"The passions are the wings of spirit. Cold tranquillity the grave of thought"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1795
"Millions of chimeras floated on my imagination all were rejected in speedy succession ere they became old enough to take the colour of reason; yet fancy will be busy till we are no more."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1797
"Thus on the golden thread that Fancy weaves / Buoyant, as Hope's illusive flattery breathes, / The young and visionary Poet leaves / Life's dull realities, while sevenfold wreaths / Of rainbow light around his head revolve."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1797
"His numerous avocations and interests, however, seemed to prevent such anxiety from preying upon his mind; and, having dismissed persons in search of Vivaldi, he passed his time in the usual routine of company and the court."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)