Date: 1782
"She was now indeed more unhappy than even in the period of her forgetfulness, yet her mind was no longer filled with the restless turbulence of hope, which still more than despondency unfitted it for thinking of others."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"She determined, as much as was in her power, in quitting her desultory dwellings, to empty her mind of the transactions which had passed in them, and upon entering a house where she was permanently to reside, to make the expulsion of her past sorrows, the basis upon which to establish her future...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1788
"These images fill, nay, are too big for their narrow souls."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"Mary could not help thinking that in his company her mind expanded, as he always went below the surface. She increased her stock of ideas, and her taste was improved."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"Her mind was unhinged, and passion unperceived filled her whole soul."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"The same turn of mind which leads me to adore the Author of all Perfection--which leads me to conclude that he only can fill my soul; forces me to admire the faint image--the shadows of his attributes here below; and my imagination gives still bolder strokes to them."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"As she passed through the streets in an hackney-coach, disgust and horror alternately filled her mind."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"Whenever she did, or said, any thing she thought Henry would have approved of--she could not avoid thinking with anguish, of the rapture his approbation ever conveyed to her heart--a heart in which there was a void, that even benevolence and religion could not fill."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"The little she read, however, filled her heart with the most painful sensations and her eyes with tears."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"I continued it from habit, and because I knew not how to employ my time otherwise; but I felt a dreary vacuity in my heart; and amid splendor and admiration was unhappy."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)