Date: 1775
"How like a wanton lamb that careless play'd, / The shepherd and the fold forgotten quite, / My vagrant soul, in search of vain delight, / Many long years from her true Shepherd stray'd!"
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1776
"I am provoked at this natural incapacity of conveying my sentiments to you; words are but a cloak, or rather a clog, to our ideas; there should be no curtain before the hearts of friends; and the longing I have ever felt for an intuitive converse, is to me a strong argument for a future state."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"Alarmed as all my passions were, her gentle accents vibrated upon my heart, and calmed each throbbing pulse."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"I have been long labouring to consider this idol of my heart as misers do their hidden treasure; though hopeless of enjoying it, yet while I thought 'twas safe, I could not look upon myself undone."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"My eyes are closed to beauty; I only feel its power, when I turn them inward, and gaze upon the image in my heart."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"O Charles! the treasures of my Lucy's mind have been concealed till now; beneath the mask of gaiety she hid the tenderest, noblest feelings of the heart, the justest sentiments, and the most perfect female understanding."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"Can you, my once dear friend, without abhorrence, think of her who robbed you of a brother, and was the unhappy cause his pure and spotless soul was stained with blood?"
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1777
"Thus oft, from shop of brain, I try / To throw the dirt and rubbish by; / But still they gain their former state, / Or leave a vacuum in the pate."
preview | full record— Savage, Mary (fl. 1763-1777)
Date: 1777
"In short, it appears that the mind in each sex has some natural kind of bias, which constitutes a distinction of character, and that the happiness of both depends, in a great measure, on the preservation and observance of this distinction."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1777
"A woman, who possesses this quality, has received a most dangerous present, perhaps not less so than beauty itself: especially it it be not sheathed in a temper peculiarly inoffensive, chastised by a most correct judgment, and restrained by more prudence than falls to the common lot."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)