Date: 1747
"Lull'd by the dear bewitching Sound, / Each jarring Passion's charm'd to rest; / Yet my Soul feels a pleasing Wound, / And sweet Disorders fill my Breast."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1746; December 17, 1747 [actually January, 1748]
"O Pallas! Queen of ev’ry art / That glads the sense, or mends the heart, / Blest source of purer joys: / In ev’ry form of beauty bright, / That captivates the mental sight, / With pleasure and surprize!"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1748
The [heart?] may be wounded and the wound may be secret
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Date: 1733, 1748
Memory is a "Surprising storehouse! in whose narrow womb / All things, the past, the present, and to come, / Find ample space, and large and mighty room."
preview | full record— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)
Date: November 10, 1750
"Does the soul (one would be almost tempted to ask) contract and shrivel up with old age, like the body?"
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1751
One may suffer "the poignant anguish of a bleeding heart"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1751
"The wretched doctor weltring in blood, Belmein (distracted with remorse) flying from justice, my father menacing me with the most dreadful wrath, were the sad images that rose to my tortured imagination, and never left me a moment's ease"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1751
"I never was so happy as to make any impression on your heart; you have, no doubt, reserved that glorious conquest for one more deserving than Belmein"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: January 3, 1750-51, 1807
"He may confine their bodies; but the free soul will be out of his power, which only love and gratitude can bind."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1752
A "Thought suddenly darted into her Mind, worthy those ingenious Books which gave it Birth."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)