Date: 1782
"What Addison has said of the Ways of Heaven, may with much more propriety & accuracy be applied to the the 'Mind of Man which indeed, is Dark & Intricate, Filled with wild Mazes, & perplexed with Error.''"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Is all over? no ray of reason left? no knowledge of thy wretched Delvile?"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1787
"This was a ray of intelligence which pointed out to the discerning parent the path prescribed by nature."
preview | full record— Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Ésclavelles Épinay (marquise d') (1726-1783)
Date: 1788
"She could not write any more; she wished herself far distant from all human society; a thick gloom spread itself over her mind: but did not make her forget the very beings she wished to fly from."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"She could not write any more; she wished herself far distant from all human society; a thick gloom spread itself over her mind: but did not make her forget the very beings she wished to fly from."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"In moments of solitary sadness, a gleam of joy would dart across her mind."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"A ray of fire seemed to flash across the imagination of Delamere, and to inflame all his hopes."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"Frequently, your coldness, your unkindness, gives me again to despondence and every lovely prospect I had suffered my imagination to draw is lost in clouds and darkness.'
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1790
"It is the province of the familiar, to diffuse chearfulness and ease--to open the heart of man to man, and to beam a temperate sunshine upon the mind."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1790
"Julia retired from the scene with regret. She was enchanted with the new world that was now exhibited to her, and she was not cool enough to distinguish the vivid glow of imagination from the colours of real bliss."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)