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)
Date: 1788
"Tho' Godolphin had one of the best tempers in the world--a temper which the roughness of those among whom he lived had only served to soften and humanize, and which was immovable by the usual accidents that ruffle others, yet he had also in a great excess all those keen feelings, which fill a he...
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"But in pouring her sorrows into the bosom of her friend she appeared to find great consolation."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: December 1790
"The vulgar have not the power of emptying their mind of the only ideas they imbibed whilst their hands were employed; they cannot quickly turn from one kind of life to another."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1791, 1794
"I mean not to extenuate the faults of those unhappy women who fall victims to guilt and folly; but surely, when we reflect how many errors we are ourselves subject to, how many secret faults lie hid in the recesses of our hearts, which we should blush to have brought into open day (and yet those...
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)