Date: 1763
"After all, are we not a little in the machine style, not to be able to withdraw our love when our esteem is at an end?"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1777
"Col. Dormer, though he knew the human heart, had never yet thought of taking his nieces in more active scenes of life: he had fallen into the common mistake of people past the meridian of their days, who, feeling tranquillity their greatest good, do not sufficiently reflect that it is insipid at...
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1777
"She saw something like just drawing in the dark shades of his pencil, though the lines seemed a good deal exaggerated: she reflected, she doubted; but, after settling a balance in her mind, the found her own scale preponderate."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1797
"But the subtlety of self-love still eluded his enquiries, and he did not detect that pride was even at this instant of self-examination, and of critical import, the master-spring of his mind."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)