Date: 1793
"Tears from our sex are not always the result of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we pay to our fellow-beings, while the mind and the heart are steeled against the weakness which our eyes indicate"
preview | full record— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)
Date: 1793
"Can you say, your mind and heart are so steeled?"
preview | full record— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)
Date: 1796
"There lux'ry spreads profusion wide, / To glut the iron breast of pride!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1797
"Man, lost in ignorance and toil, / Becomes associate to the soil, / And his heart hardens like his native rock."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1797
"Something seemed to lie upon her mind, and she tried almost to the last to tell it; and as she grasped Signora Ellena's hand, she would still look up in her face with such doleful expression as no one who had not a heart of stone could bear."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1798
"Objects or thoughts, that have been associated with pleasure, retain the power of pleasing; as the needle touched by the loadstone acquires polarity, and retains it long after the loadstone is withdrawn."
preview | full record— Edgeworth, Maria
Date: 1798
"In making observations upon subjects which are new to us, we must be content to use our memory unassisted at first by our reason; we must treasure up the ore and rubbish together, because we cannot immediately distinguish them from each other."
preview | full record— Edgeworth, Maria
Date: 1798
"But I'm a Bust with Heart of Steel, / That can nor Pain nor Pleasure feel."
preview | full record— Elizabeth [née Lady Elizabeth Berkeley], margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth [other married name Elizabeth Craven, Lady Craven] (1750-1828)
Date: 1799
"[Y]et much the Poet found, / To swell Imagination's golden store, / On Arno's bank"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1799
"Your iron heart brings me to myself"
preview | full record— Inchbald, Elizabeth (1753-1821); Kotzebue (1761-1819)