Date: 1796

"Her mind was a soil which received and naturalized all that was sown in it."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1796

"Gaiety was so truly the native growth of the mind of Camilla, that neither care nor affliction could chace it long from its home."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1797

"Still shall the plaintive lyre essay its powers / To dress the cave of Care with Fancy's flowers."

— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)

Date: w. September 1794, 1797

"Wit, that no suffering could impair, / Was thine, and thine whose mental powers / Of force to chase the fiends that tear / From Fancy's hands her budding flowers."

— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)

Date: 1798

"On the contrary, if, to entice him to enter the paths of knowledge, we strew them with flowers, how will he feel when he must force his way through thorns and briars?"

— Edgeworth, Maria