Date: 1763
"I will leave Belmont: her will is the law of my heart; yet a few days I must give to love."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1765
"By reason's standard, then, you judge amiss / Of those whose legislator is caprice."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1767
"Strike then, Nourjahad, if thou darest; dismiss me to endless and uninterrupted joys, and live thyself a prey to remorse and disappointment, the slave of passions never to be gratified, and a sport to the vicissitudes of fortune."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1767
"Thy ungoverned passions led thee to an act of blood!"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1769
"I refused, saying, that, as I was resolved he should in every point be the aggressor, he should fire first; he did, and missed me, and on my soul I believe designedly; for by the changes in his countenance, I could perceive that grief, and not anger, was then the predominant passion in his mind."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1769
One may banish from her heart a hopeless passion
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
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)