Date: 1792
"These are the glowing minds that concentrate pictures for their fellow creatures; forcing them to view with interest the objects reflected from the impassioned imagination, which they passed over in nature."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1796
"An absent smile, and a few faint acknowledgments of her goodness were all she could return: Eugenia abandoned when she might have been served, Edgar contemning when he might have been approving---these were the images of her mind, which resisted entrance to all other."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)