Date: 1767
"Thy ungoverned passions led thee to an act of blood!"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1769
"Do you think it possible, Lucy, for a Frenchwoman to love? is not vanity the ruling passion of their hearts?"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
We may blush at past follies and indiscretions "when the empire of reason begins"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
"For my part, I think no politics worth attending to but those of the little commonwealth of woman: if I can maintain my empire over hearts, I leave the men to quarrel for every thing else."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
"My voyage ought undoubtedly to be considered as an abdication: I am to all intents and purposes dead in law as a lover; and the lady has a right to consider her heart as vacant, and to proceed to a new election."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
Savages may regard "the Christian system of marriage as contrary to the laws of nature and reason"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1776
"I have very uneasy apprehensions, tho' I hope they are not well founded, that Sir James Desmond's ruling passion is the love of play."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"Banished be the vile idea from every honest breast, and may his couch be ever strewed with thorns, that can for his sport, create a pang, in the bosom of unsuspecting innocence!"
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"Too much a slave to all the fond affections of the heart, love for my brother tempted me to hope that his society might sooth my griefs, and lull my cares to rest."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1777
"Lord Melvile had courage to persevere in advancing, though Dorignon's idea perpetually obtruded itself on his imagination; the charms of her form indeed were not such as justified his infatuation; she was, in respect to personal attractions, much below mediocrity; but her sprightly sallies, her ...
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)