Date: 1794
"Thus circumstanced, she tried to banish reflection, but her busy fancy would still hover over the subjects of her interest, and she heard the clock of the castle strike two, before she closed her eyes."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
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...
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"Not one short month for ten revolving years, / But pain within my frame its sceptre rears!"
preview | full record— Cave [later Winscom], Jane (c.1754-1813)
Date: 1795
In "the serious and reflective mind, love raises a despotic throne, and, like the burning sun of Africa, he pours his chiefest ardors upon slaves"
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1796?
"In that soft Bosom where no Faction reigns seek thy Asylum."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1796, 1806
"A dread coincidence of time and act / Drew me from Reason's empire to Despair!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1796
"A fine country, and diversified views, may soften even the keenest affliction of decided misfortune, and tranquilise the most gloomy sadness into resignation and composure; but suspense rejects the gentle palliative; 'tis an absorbent of the faculties that suffers them to see, hear, and feel onl...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"Her person charmed his eye, but his own imagination framed her mind, and while his enchanted faculties were the mere slaves of her beauty, they persuaded themselves they were vanquished by every other perfection."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1797
"Having arranged her books, and set her little room in order, she seated herself at a window, and, with a volume of Tasso, endeavoured to banish every painful remembrance from her mind."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1797
"'Justice does not the less exist, because her laws are neglected,' observed Schedoni. 'A sense of what she commands lives in every breast; and when we fail to obey that sense, it is to weakness, not to virtue, that we yield.'"
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)