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Date: 1794

"But the latter was too deeply wounded, through the medium of her mind, to be quickly revived."

— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)

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Date: 1794

"In the eye of fancy, she perceived the gleam of arms through the duskiness of night, the glitter of spears and helmets, and the banners floating dimly on the twilight; while now and then the blast of a distant trumpet echoed along the defile, and the signal was answered by a momentary clash of a...

— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)

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Date: 1794

"Her first care was to guard the door of the stair-case, for which purpose she placed against it all the furniture she could move, and she was thus employed, for some time, at the end of which she had another instance how much more oppressive misfortune is to the idle, than to the busy; for, havi...

— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)

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Date: 1794

"A superstitious dread stole over her; she stood listening, for some moments, in trembling expectation, and then endeavoured to recollect her thoughts, and to reason herself into composure; but human reason cannot establish her laws on subjects, lost in the obscurity of imagination, any more than...

— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)

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Date: 1796

"By force the thirst of weakly sense is cloyed / Silent attend the frown, the gaze, the smile, / To grasp far objects with incessant toil; / So play life's springs with energy, and try / The unceasing thirst of knowledge to supply."

— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)

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Date: 1796

"Her form and her mind were of equal elasticity."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

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Date: 1796

"The form and the mind of Lavinia were in the most perfect harmony."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

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Date: 1796

"How, at a moment like this, could she make her purposed confession to her father, whose wounded mind demanded all she could offer of condolement?"

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

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Date: 1796

"I shall paint your meeting in my 'mind's eye,' see you again restored to the sunshine of her fondness, and while away my solitary languor with reveries far more soothing than any that I have yet experienced at Belfont."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

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Date: 1796

"An idea of any active service invigorates the body as well as the mind."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.